firefox, gaim, /lib/ld-2.3.3.so ?

[Tom London]

When in strict/enforcing, mozilla fails to start because or the
/lib/ld-2.3.3.so 'violation'.

I get the .fonts.cache avc when running in permissive mode.  I haven't
modified the policy to allow the /lib/ld-2.3.3.so access to see the
effect of this failing.

Regarding the /lib/ld-2.3.3.so avc, I'm noticing this when I try to
start firefox, thunderbird and gaim, but nothing else..  Could it also
be a gtk2 problem?

tom

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:18:05 -0400, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 20:33 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> > After being on the road for a bit, I did a 'yum update' to grab the new stuff.
> >
> > After doing so (>300 packages), running strict/enforcing,
> > firefox and gaim fail to start:
> >
> > Sep 23 20:10:29 fedora kernel: audit(1095995429.976:0): avc:  denied
> > { write } for  pid=4755 path=/lib/ld-2.3.3.so dev=hda2 ino=3178536
> > scontext=user_u:user_r:user_mozilla_t
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t tclass=file
> 
> That is bizarre.  My guess is some recent glibc change.
> 
> > Sep 23 20:10:31 fedora kernel: audit(1095995431.164:0): avc:  denied
> > { unlink } for  pid=4755 exe=/usr/lib/firefox-0.10.0/firefox-bin
> > name=.fonts.cache-1 dev=hda2 ino=2752979
> > scontext=user_u:user_r:user_mozilla_t
> > tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t tclass=file
> 
> The fontconfig cache as it's currently implemented is going to be a
> perennial problem for SELinux.  Any application that uses fontconfig
> will want to read and write to the cache file.
> 
> Currently the fontconfig library has a bit of code:
> FcBool
> FcGlobalCacheSave (FcGlobalCache    *cache,
>                    const FcChar8    *cache_file)
> {
> /* ... */
> #if defined (HAVE_GETUID) && defined (HAVE_GETEUID)
>     /* Set-UID programs can't safely update the cache */
>     if (getuid () != geteuid ())
>         return FcFalse;
> #endif
> 
> But there's really no equivalent to that check for SELinux.
> 
> A short term solution might be to give .fonts.cache-1 its own type by
> patching fontconfig to put it in a ~/.fontconfig directory which has a
> type user_font_cache_t that we can statically assign, and
> when .fonts.cache-1 is created in that directory it should inherit the
> type, so it won't just be user_home_t.  Then for every user domain
> except user_t we just dontaudit writes to it.
> 
> Was mozilla actually not starting because of this?  That would probably
> be a bug in the fontconfig libraries.
> 
> A longer term solution would be to make the fontconfig cache a daemon
> that controls access to fonts more precisely.
> 
> 
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Tom London