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Bug 228628 - Please revert textrel_shlib_t context for Nemiver plugin
Summary: Please revert textrel_shlib_t context for Nemiver plugin
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-14 02:15 UTC by Peter Gordon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.5.4-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-22 18:21:49 UTC
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Description Peter Gordon 2007-02-14 02:15:56 UTC 
Hello.

I'm working on submitting Nemiver (a GUI C/C++ debugger using gdb) and Gianluca
Sforna has stumbled on a minor problem wherein the perspective plugin needs to
be marked as textrel_shlib_t so that it can properly run without SELinux denials. 

While I understand that this can be a security, I believe it is intended
behavior, and will bug upstream about it to change the employed methodology to
something not requiring this execmod capability; but until that time, this  is
needed for proper running of the program.

Therefore, I ask that
/usr/lib/nemiver/plugins/dbgperspective/libdbgperspectiveplugin.so (and
/usr/lib64/nemiver/plugins/dbgperspective/libdbgperspectiveplugin.so on 64-bit
platforms) be added with this context to the policy, and when this is no longer
needed will ask that it be removed as well.

Thanks!
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-02-14 16:56:52 UTC 
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.5.3-2
Comment 2 Peter Gordon 2007-02-17 17:02:27 UTC 
Thanks, Dan; and sorry to keep poking you about this (see comments 21 and on
from bug 223943). :]

Now it seems we need to revert that change as it was in fact not needed. (At
least, I am unable to reproduce the issue.) 

Would you please remove the Nemiver plugin's textrel_shlib_t marking? 

Thanks for your help!
Comment 3 Gianluca Sforna 2007-02-17 23:54:20 UTC 
Is there a reason why the problem seems to be FC5 specific?
Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2007-02-20 20:10:32 UTC 
Not that I know of, unless you are dealing with a newer version of the plugin.
Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2007-02-21 13:59:42 UTC 
Reverted in  2.5.4-2
Comment 6 Peter Gordon 2007-02-22 18:21:49 UTC 
Thanks; and sorry to bug you so much! :]
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