Adding two new booleans to httpd to tighten it's security.

Christopher J. PeBenito cpebenito at tresys.com
Mon Dec 12 19:27:57 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 20:08 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> How about having selinux play nice with spamassassin at last ?
> 
> It's still not able to create resolver sockets
> "Error creating a DNS resolver socket"

This is fixed upstream.

> or writing in its own files
> 
> cannot create tmp lockfile ~/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.xxx
> cannot write to ~/.spamassassin/user_pref

You didn't say what the denial was.  I went looking, and only found this
on the mail list:

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 08:52 -0700, W. Scott Wilburn wrote: 
> Nov 20 04:05:44 scooby kernel: audit(1132484744.807:45387): avc:  denied  
> { search } for  pid=25548 comm="spamd" name=".spamassassin" dev=md0 
> ino=2197675 scontext=root:system_r:spamd_t 
> tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t tclass=dir

Is this the denial that corresponds to the messages you have above?

> Or else fix fstab-sync
> 
> avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=2572 comm="fstab-sync" name="/"
> dev=tmpfs ino=5287 scontext=system_u:system_r:updfstab_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0 tclass=dir

Fixed upstream.

> or gpm
> 
> avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=2420 comm="gpm" name="mice" dev=tmpfs
> ino=4118 scontext=system_u:system_r:gpm_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mouse_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file

Fixed upstream.

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