On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:42:06 +0200, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote:
>On 17/07/17 20:15, Stephen Isard wrote: >> On two SL7.3 systems where I have set exim as my mta alternative, I am >> getting a lot of entries in /var/log/messages saying "SELinux is >> preventing /usr/bin/exim from search access on the directory net", with >> the usual accompanying "if you believe that exim should be allowed..." >> stuff, but the logs don't explain what call to exim triggered the messages. >> >> Sealert -l tells me >> >> Raw Audit Messages >> type=AVC msg=audit(1500313603.937:268): avc: denied { search } for >> pid=3097 comm="exim" name="net" dev="proc" ino=7154 >> scontext=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0 >> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_net_t:s0 tclass=dir >> >> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1500313603.937:268): arch=x86_64 syscall=open >> success=no exit=EACCES a0=7ff03baef4b0 a1=80000 a2=1b6 a3=24 items=0 >> ppid=781 pid=3097 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=93 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 >> egid=93 sgid=93 fsgid=93 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=exim >> exe=/usr/sbin/exim subj=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0 key=(null) >> >> which doesn't seem to be much help. >> >> Searches turn up two Centos 7 reports, >> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13247 and >> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=12913 that look as if they might be >> the same thing with different mta alternatives, but no response to either. > >Yes, this is exim trying to read some files in /proc/sys/net, starting >with scanning the directory. I'd suggest reporting this as an bug in >the Red Hat bug tracker, file it under selinux-policy component - that >team should be able to figure out if this is a bug or not. My quick >search there didn't turn up anything in particular. I followed your suggestion (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472432) and got a comment from mma...@redhat.com that it looks the same as BZ#1444441, but I don't have permission to view that.