avc denied from mDNSResponder

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Jul 12 17:16:16 UTC 2004


Richard Hally wrote:

> When booting in enforcing mode with the latest strict 
> policy(selinux-policy-strict-sources-1.14.1-5)
> the following avc denied message is produced.
>
> Jul 10 03:12:02 new2 network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded
> Jul 10 03:12:04 new2 kernel: audit(1089443524.677:0): avc:  denied  { 
> name_bind
> } for  pid=2016 exe=/usr/bin/mDNSResponder 
> scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:dns_port_t 
> tclass=udp_socket
>
mDNSResponder is not something we ship, (I think).  So you need to write 
special policy for it or allow user_t to bind to the dns_port.

>
> HTH
> Richard Hally
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