Apache crashing in F-11

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Fri Aug 14 14:38:47 UTC 2009


On 08/14/2009 09:16 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> I'm having a problem where Apache is segfaulting when SELinux is enabled
> because of an AVC. I'm using freeIPA which defines a mod_python handler.
> 
> The AVCs are:
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1250255388.275:27650): avc:  denied  { execute } for
>  pid=7849 comm="httpd"
> path=2F746D702F6666696A7435517772202864656C6574656429 dev=sda1
> ino=442585 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1250255388.288:27652): avc:  denied  { execute } for
>  pid=7850 comm="httpd"
> path=2F6465762F73686D2F6666696D436E667967202864656C6574656429 dev=tmpfs
> ino=33960 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_tmpfs_t:s0 tclass=file
> 
> audit2allow generated this:
> 
> module test 1.0;
> 
> require {
>         type httpd_tmp_t;
>         type httpd_t;
>         type httpd_tmpfs_t;
>         class file execute;
> }
> 
> #============= httpd_t ==============
> allow httpd_t httpd_tmp_t:file execute;
> allow httpd_t httpd_tmpfs_t:file execute;
> 
> I'm a bit stumped. What should I look for, something doing an exec,
> something messing in /tmp, both?
> 
> thanks
> 
> rob
> 
> 
Apache executing something in /tmp, just feels like a very bad idea.  I am not sure mod_python is doing this, but I would look for some configuration that is putting files in /tmp.

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