AVC everytime I launch a tab in firefox from gnome-terminal

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 19:37:14 UTC 2008


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Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:15:09AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> Every time I launch a tab from a URL in gnome-terminal, I get this 
>> AVC:
>>
>> Hmm why is this program set-uid root?
>>
>>> ls -l /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config  
>> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 60048 2008-03-11 10:02 /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config*
>>
>> host=dustpuppy.wpi.edu type=AVC msg=audit(1207926134.511:4168): avc: 
>> denied { execstack } for pid=30324 comm="plugin-config" 
>> scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:nsplugin_config_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 
>> tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:nsplugin_config_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 
>> tclass=process
> 
> I opened a bug on nspluginwrapper to get some questions answered:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442065
> 
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This is probably caused by some evil/badly written plugin

If you turn on the allow_nsplugin_execmem boolean, the app should work.

setsebool -P allow_nsplugin_execmem=1
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