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Bug 477743 - memcached-selinux and audit denies (memcached works, but memcached-selinux doesn't)
Summary: memcached-selinux and audit denies (memcached works, but memcached-selinux do...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: memcached
Version: el5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Lindner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: ActualBug
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-23 09:02 UTC by Jarkko
Modified: 2010-04-26 23:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: memcached-1.4.5-1.el5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-04-26 23:25:20 UTC
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Description Jarkko 2008-12-23 09:02:49 UTC
Description of problem: memcached-selinux can't be used (memcached works when only the memcached package is installed as then there's no policy in use for memcached) because it causes three audit denies.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): memcached-selinux-1.2.5-2.el5

Actual results: "service memcached start" says OK, but actually fails as "service memcached status" reports "memcached dead but subsys locked".

Expected results: memcached starting and working with the selinux policy package (memcached-selinux).


Additional info
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Here are the denies:

Dec 23 10:47:47 web kernel: audit(1230022067.059:11): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=9882 comm="memcached" scontext=root:system_r:memcached_t:s0 tcontext=root:system_r:memcached_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
Dec 23 10:47:47 web kernel: audit(1230022067.063:12): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=9882 comm="memcached" scontext=root:system_r:memcached_t:s0 tcontext=root:system_r:memcached_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
Dec 23 10:47:47 web kernel: audit(1230022067.063:13): avc:  denied  { name_bind } for  pid=9882 comm="memcached" src=11211 scontext=root:system_r:memcached_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:port_t:s0 tclass=udp_socket

And here's what audit2allow says about them:

#============= memcached_t ==============
allow memcached_t port_t:udp_socket name_bind;
allow memcached_t self:netlink_route_socket create;

Comment 1 Paul Lindner 2009-07-24 06:00:08 UTC
I'm not an selinux expert here, and the patch for that was contributed.  Can anyone help out?

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-04-06 18:38:32 UTC
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/memcached-1.4.5-1.el5

Comment 3 Jarkko 2010-04-07 09:01:53 UTC
# yum localupdate memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm 
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm: memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386
Marking memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm as an update to memcached-1.2.8-1.el5.i386
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: memcached = 1.2.8-1.el5 for package: memcached-selinux
---> Package memcached.i386 0:1.4.5-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2 for package: memcached
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
memcached-selinux-1.2.8-1.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: memcached = 1.2.8-1.el5 is needed by package memcached-selinux-1.2.8-1.el5.i386 (installed)
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 from /memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2 is needed by package memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 (/memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386)

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
    memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 from /memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386


# yum remove memcached-selinux
...
Removed:
  memcached-selinux.i386 0:1.2.8-1.el5


# yum localupdate memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm 
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm: memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386
Marking memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386.rpm as an update to memcached-1.2.8-1.el5.i386
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package memcached.i386 0:1.4.5-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2 for package: memcached
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 from /memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libevent-1.4.so.2 is needed by package memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 (/memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386)

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
    memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386 from /memcached-1.4.5-1.el5.i386


EL5 has libevent-1.1a.so.1 but the package has been built against libevent-1.4.so.2 it seems...

Comment 4 Paul Lindner 2010-04-07 12:56:20 UTC
we're rebuilding for EL-5.5 which has libevent 1.4, sadly there's no way to generate an RPM for EL-5.4 now...

See the big long thread over at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563985

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-04-07 22:17:17 UTC
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update memcached'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/memcached-1.4.5-1.el5

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-04-19 23:22:41 UTC
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update memcached'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/memcached-1.4.5-1.el5

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-04-26 23:25:11 UTC
memcached-1.4.5-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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