Re: cupsd accessing afick.log clamd.log freshclam.log

[Daniel J Walsh]

Vikram Goyal wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I am getting these avc denied messages. I am not sure if these should be
>  incorporated in local policy.
>
>  type=AVC msg=audit(1159051843.723:565): avc:  denied  { read write } for
>  pid=14645 comm="cupsd" name="afick.log" dev=sda12 ino=643989
>  scontext=user_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
>  tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>  type=AVC msg=audit(1159051843.723:565): avc:  denied  { read write } for
>  pid=14645 comm="cupsd" name="clamd.log" dev=sda12 ino=643867
>  scontext=user_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
>  tcontext=root:object_r:clamd_var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>  type=AVC msg=audit(1159051843.723:565): avc:  denied  { read write } for
>  pid=14645 comm="cupsd" name="freshclam.log" dev=sda12 ino=643915
>  scontext=user_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
>  tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>
>  audit2allow produces - 
>  allow cupsd_t clamd_var_log_t:file { read write };
>  allow cupsd_t var_log_t:file { read write };
>
>     
These look like leaked file descriptor.  Most likely logrotate.  Since 
logrotate probably opens these files for r/w and it restarts cups.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205072
>  The installed versions are:
>  cups-1.2.3-1.6
>  clamav-0.88.4-21.fc5.at
>  afick-2.2-2.2.fc5.rf
>
>  Thanks!
>