selinux denies wine and xorg

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Fri Sep 14 13:45:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 16:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288671
> 
> Just following the advice given here:
> Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
> 
>     against this package.
> 
> Summary
>     SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/Xorg (xdm_xserver_t) "unix_read unix_write"
>     to <Unknown> (wine_t).
> 
> Detailed Description
>     SELinux denied access requested by /usr/bin/Xorg. It is not expected that
>     this access is required by /usr/bin/Xorg and this access may signal an
>     intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or
>     configuration of the application is causing it to require additional access.
> 
> Allowing Access
>     You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see
>     http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385 Or you can disable
>     SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not
>     recommended. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
>     against this package.
> 
> Additional Information        
> 
> Source Context                system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:SystemLow-
>                               SystemHigh
> Target Context                system_u:system_r:wine_t
> Target Objects                None [ shm ]

That's... quite odd.  Whatever shm objects X wants to talk to should be
fine, but it's not clear what kind of object it is from this report.

- ajax




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