FlashPlayer 9 Beta refuses to process some Flash content with SELinux enforcing

Karl MacMillan kmacmill at redhat.com
Mon Jan 15 16:34:32 UTC 2007


Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Has anyone noticed SELinux to refuse permissions to the Flash Player 
> plug-in (or standalone)?
> 

It normally requires chcon -t textrel_shlib_t 
.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. Otherwise, please send any denials 
related to firefox / flash from /var/log/messages or 
/var/log/audit/audit.log.

> And while I'm on the subject: How might I clear one particular 
> application to do something weird, without having to grant such 
> clearance to every such application? For example: VideoLAN Client needs 
> permission to make its memory stack executable. How can I grant such 
> permission to vlc alone and not across the board?
> 

chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t /path/to/vlc

Karl

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