SELinux Exim Problem

Didar Hossain didar.hossain at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 08:34:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Frank Chiulli<frankc.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On F11 when exim attempts to retrieve mail from my ISP, I get the following:

How are you pulling the mail from your ISP?


> Summary:
> SELinux is preventing exim (exim_t) "getattr" boot_t.
>
> Detailed Description:
> SELinux denied access requested by exim. It is not expected that this
> access is required by exim and this access may signal an intrusion
> attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or
> configuration of the application is causing it to require additional
> access.
>
> Allowing Access:
> You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
> (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can
> disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is
> not recommended.  Please file a bug report
> (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this
> package.
>
> Additional Information:
> Source Context                system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0
> Target Context                system_u:object_r:boot_t:s0
> Target Objects                /boot [ dir ]
> Source                        exim
> Source Path                   /usr/sbin/exim
> Port                          <Unknown>
> Host                          flinux
> Source RPM Packages           exim-4.69-10.fc11
> Target RPM Packages           filesystem-2.4.21-1.fc11
> Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.12-80.fc11
> Selinux Enabled               True
> Policy Type                   targeted
> MLS Enabled                   True
> Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
> Plugin Name                   catchall
> Host Name                     flinux
> Platform                      Linux flinux 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1
>                              SMP Mon Aug 24 17:16:21 EDT 2009 i686 athlon
> Alert Count                   327
> First Seen                    Sun 12 Jul 2009 05:09:10 PM PDT
> Last Seen                     Sat 05 Sep 2009 09:05:41 AM PDT
> Local ID                      c330c7e2-7fd7-45ae-8ebb-8de1def6e145
> Line Numbers
>
> Raw Audit Messages
> node=flinux type=AVC msg=audit(1252166741.77:28): avc:  denied  {
> getattr } for  pid=2279 comm="exim" path="/boot" dev=sda1 ino=2
> scontext=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:boot_t:s0 tclass=dir
>
> node=flinux type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1252166741.77:28): arch=40000003
> syscall=195 success=no exit=-13 a0=bfbe1292 a1=bfbe1688 a2=756ff4 a3=0
> items=0 ppid=1489 pid=2279 auid=4294967295 uid=93 gid=93 euid=93
> suid=93 fsuid=93 egid=93 sgid=93 fsgid=93 tty=(none) ses=4294967295
> comm="exim" exe="/usr/sbin/exim" subj=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0
> key=(null)
>
> =====
>
> Other information:
> RPMs:
> exim-4.69-10.fc11.i586
> selinux-policy-3.6.12-80.fc11.noarch
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-80.fc11.noarch
>
> The mail does get through but I get an SELinux error for each message.
>
> I've looked for '/boot' in exim config files but came up empty.
>
> I installed F11 but kept my home directory which is on a different disk.
>
> Since I have not heard anyone else complaining about this, I figure
> that it's my configuration.  I just don't know where else to look.
>
> Frank
>
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