selinux September 2014

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Managing SELinux in the Enterprise
by Douglas Brown 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Hi all, SELinux has some configuration files such as /etc/selinux/config which are easily managed with a tool like puppet. There’s also modular policies that can be managed with rpms (via Satellite) and or puppet (semodule). Finally puppet supports enforcing booleans with 'seboolean’. However, there’s a few things missing: * SELinux user and role mappings * Port labels (only supported in base policy or changed with semanage like so: semanage port -a -t httpd_port_t -p tcp 6312) * Custom file labels (ie. semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/data/www(/.*)?") I know these can be imported and exported with semanage using the -i and -o flags, however it’s slow and doesn't easily facilitate the programmatic query and enforcement of these settings at scale using a tool like puppet. Ideally puppet could manage the .local files in /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/, however Red Hat support tells me this won’t work and that semanage is the only supported mechanism. Surely there’s someone in the community who has a non-hackish method of dealing with this? Is FreeIPA the solution to the user and role mappings? What about the labels? Thanks, Doug

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Tips for setting up a policy dev environment
by William 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi, I regularly report issues with confined users in SELinux as I run as one on my day-to-day account. Sometimes I have contributed fixes to the policy, but this has been through fedpkg and diffs that doesn't really scale well. How do you (the main developers) setup your selinux policy, what git / repo do you use for it, how do you build it etc. Any tips would be appreciated so that I can setup a more "long lasting" environment and hopefully, get to contribute some more policy. -- William <william(a)firstyear.id.au>

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Recent bash vulnerability and SELinux containment
by Dmitry Makovey 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hi everybody, while the whole "bash"-storm is gaining force is it reasonable to develop SELinux policy prohibiting bash invocations from daemons' contexts to have access to anything but a tiny sandbox? Has anybody attempted such thing? -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 --- Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem Woody Allen When in trouble when in doubt run in circles scream and shout http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19330

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Roles in selinux
by William 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hi, On my Fedora 20 system, I list roles and I can see: semanage user -l Labeling MLS/ MLS/ SELinux User Prefix MCS Level MCS Range SELinux Roles guest_u user s0 s0 guest_r root user s0 s0-s0:c0.c1023 staff_r sysadm_r system_r unconfined_r staff_u user s0 s0-s0:c0.c1023 staff_r sysadm_r system_r unconfined_r sysadm_u user s0 s0-s0:c0.c1023 sysadm_r system_u user s0 s0-s0:c0.c1023 system_r unconfined_r unconfined_u user s0 s0-s0:c0.c1023 system_r unconfined_r user_u user s0 s0 user_r xguest_u user s0 s0 xguest_r However http://www.selinuxproject.org/page/RefpolicyBasicRoleCreation lists roles such as logadm_r etc. Is there a reason these are not in f20? -- William <william(a)firstyear.id.au>

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Re: selinux Digest, Vol 127, Issue 13
by Ted Rule 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

On 29/09/2014 13:00, selinux-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:00:00 +0200 From: Florian Weimer > <fweimer(a)redhat.com> To: selinux(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: > SELinux and the bash exploit. Message-ID: > <54291180.6020903(a)redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; > format=flowed On 09/25/2014 11:40 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> > https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71122.html > I wonder why environment variables aren't labeled because they evidently > cross trust boundaries in surprising fashions. > > -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Hmm. Quite so. I sense a whole raft of environmental cleansing mechanisms being added to SELinux any minute now.. -- Ted Rule Director, Layer3 Systems Ltd Layer3 Systems Limited is registered in England. Company no 3130393 43 Pendle Road, Streatham, London, SW16 6RT Tel: 020-8769-4484 Mob: 07946-908914 GPG Fingerprint = 9227:3434:b51d:c7a1:eea6:21e2:418a:8997:c104:7566 E: ejtr(a)layer3.co.uk W: http://www.layer3.co.uk/

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SELinux and the bash exploit.
by Daniel J Walsh 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71122.html

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Re: SELinux and the bash exploit.
by Miroslav Grepl 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

On 09/26/2014 09:03 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > > On 25 September 2014 22:40, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com > <mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com>> wrote: > > https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71122.html > > > Good article Dan ... it says clearly what I've been trying to drum > into people's heads about the role it takes and how it confines the > activity but an exploit that stays within the confines of that > activity ... well it has to be allowed or else the standard activity > would fail ;) > > Yes. I also got a lot of questions how SELinux helps us with this exploit. I believe SELinux helps as much as possible here how Dan wrote in his blog. Of course, there are also booleans to make a system with SELinux more restrictive. Also confined users.

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Fwd: Query regarding role hierarchy SELinux
by Harpreet 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hello I am doing academic project for providing role based access with selinux. Your blog has been of great help as I was new to SELinux. I want to define roles hierarchy in my policy file. And for that i was using dominance role macro to define hierachies. But now i see that dominance macro has been deprecated when i compile my policy files. Please suggest me any other alternative for "dominance" macro. Thanks and regards Harpreet

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SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/setfiles from 'mac_admin' accesses on the capability2 .
by Shintaro Fujiwara 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

During updating Fedora20 today, I got a setroubleshoot message saying above. So, I reported as a bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144847 -- 日本にヘヴィメタル・ハードロックを根付かせるページ http://heavymetalhardrock.no-ip.info/ <http://heavymetalhardrock.ddnsking.com/> 世界中でセキュアＯＳのSELinuxを使いやすくするフリーソフト http://sourceforge.net/projects/segatex/ CMS（PHPとPostgreSQLを使ったフリーソフト） http://sourceforge.net/projects/webon/ https://github.com/intrajp/irforum_jp

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Is there a method for collect all selinux logs and create a graph??
by Maurizio Pagani 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Hi everybody. I'll want configure SELinux in 1000+ Systems, but i need to know, if there is a method or product that collect all logs of SELinux and create a mirror of what are happening in the systems. An example is snorby for suricata or snort (IDS/IPS): http://www.rivy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/snorby-screenshot.png Let me know. Thanks in advance. Maurizio Pagani

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selinux September 2014