[Ifeffit] Fwd: Horae-70 installation problem

Bruce Ravel bravel at bnl.gov
Tue Jan 18 07:35:41 CST 2011


Hi all,

Has anyone here ever used security enhanced linux?  I got the
following bug report from an SELinux user which includes an error
message from one of SELinux security systems.

Never having used SELinux myself, I don't quite understand the problem
Dr. Pan is observing once he uses chcon to change the security state
of the ifeffit library.  And I don't have a machine on which to
explore this problem.  I am hoping someone here might be more
knowledgable than I.

If anyone can offer any assistance to Dr. Pan, that would be great.

Thanks,
B



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Subject: Horae-70 installation problem
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 01:34:29 am
From: Guoqiang PAN <gqpan at ustc.edu.cn>
To: Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov>

Dear Dr. Ravel
Hi, thank you very much for the horae-70 for artemis, athema and
hephaestus XAFS software. Due to the detail for the installation, 
I have installed in my PC linux of Fedora Core 10.
When artemis has been installed, it was failed to run correctly. There
is a detailed explanation of it in the attachment. I fixed it using
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so'
Afterwards, it seems work, but the data in the interface panel could not
be changed,please refer to the attached snapshot pictures.
My system information as follows:
[gqpan at localhost horae-070]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18
12:19:59 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thank you for your help!
Best regards!
Guoqiang PAN
National synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
University of Science & Technology of China


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 Bruce Ravel  ------------------------------------ bravel at bnl.gov

 National Institute of Standards and Technology
 Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2
 Building 535A
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Summary:

SELinux is preventing artemis from loading
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so which
requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The artemis application attempted to load
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so which
requires text relocation. This is a potential security problem. Most libraries
do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and
request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to
remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so to use
relocation as a workaround, until the library is fixed. Please file a bug report
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.

Allowing Access:

If you trust
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so to run
correctly, you can change the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t
textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so'" You
must also change the default file context files on the system in order to
preserve them even on a full relabel. "semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so'"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so'

Additional Information:

Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
Target Objects                /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/a
                              uto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so [ file ]
Source                        artemis
Source Path                   /usr/local/bin/perl
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.5.13-18.fc10
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   allow_execmod
Host Name                     localhost.localdomain
Platform                      Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
                              #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 12:19:59 EST 2008 i686 i686
Alert Count                   7
First Seen                    Sat 15 Jan 2011 10:42:37 AM CST
Last Seen                     Sat 15 Jan 2011 12:59:32 PM CST
Local ID                      3d363441-10c1-43ce-b71a-092d207ca8e9
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1295067572.730:78): avc:  denied  { execmod } for  pid=24182 comm="artemis" path="/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so" dev=sdb3 ino=1627281 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tclass=file

node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1295067572.730:78): arch=40000003 syscall=125 success=no exit=-13 a0=acaee000 a1=b0000 a2=5 a3=bfb5ff30 items=0 ppid=9285 pid=24182 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=2 comm="artemis" exe="/usr/local/bin/perl" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 key=(null)


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