firefox and selinux

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 11 16:13:13 UTC 2008


--- Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have set settroubleshoot to allow the following:
> > chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t
> > '/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4pre/firefox'
> > 
> > But it is happening again, I do not understand why
> I
> > need to do it multiple of times.  I see a pattern
> > occuring:  I have filed a bug report against
> > firefox-b3
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432198
> > 
> > I hope that firefox and selinux start to work
> together
> > and not against each other. :)
> > 
> > Summary:
> > 
> > SELinux is preventing firefox from making the
> program
> > stack executable.
> 
> Is not necessary.  This is probably a plugin or
> extension that is requesting 
> this and is dangerous.  I commented on your bug
> Antonio.
> 
> I saw this same type of thing happening when I had
> an older flash library in 
> ~/.mozilla (I migrate my home, this was a 2005 .so
> flash lib that somehow just 
> managed to start getting loaded that I had not been
> using in years).  I cannot 
> find where the discussion of that problem was, I
> thought it was in bz but don't 
> see it now and removing that old lib was suggested
> to me.
> 
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Andrew, 

How do I disable the plugins that are there and worked
before?

I have removed flashplugin, but mplayer plugin, and
iceatea are there and I do not want to remove those.


Regards,

Antonio 


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