Ken,
Thank you for your response.
you can first use execstack to check whether your program really need
executable stack(you must have prelink firstly):
I checked to see if the library requires executable stack and execstack
returns unknown(? - when it is unknown whether the object requires or
doesn't require exe-cutable stack).
# execstack -q libclntsh.so.10.1
? libclntsh.so.10.1
I don't think it was prelinked since these libraries are distributed by
oracle as binary files( all I did was downloaded the archive from oracle's
website and extracted them into /opt/oracle/app/instant-client-10.1). Then
I downloaded the php-5.1.6-11 SRPM and linked against the oci libraries in
the following manner:
configure \
--with-oci8=instantclient,/opt/oracle/app/instant-client-10.1/
i wonder why is your libraries usr_t, not lib_t, if your libs are lib_t,
httpd_t can execute those files
I think this happened because I made the directory path
/opt/oracle/app/instant-client-10.1/ as root. This path inherited the
default context. I imagine it would be more sensible to store the libraries
in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64.
I am still puzzled by the executable stack dilemma. I noticed this goes
away, when disable selinux(setenforce 0).
Look forward to your correspondence.
From: Ken YANG <spng.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ubaidul Khan <ukhanlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: apache2 failing to start
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:10:27 +0800
Ubaidul Khan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are running RHEL 5 x86_64 and I compiled php from Source RPM, so I
> could link php with Oracle Instant Client Libraries(oci). OCI is
> installed under /opt with the following contexts:
>
> # ls -lZ
> drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t oracle
>
> [root@saleen_webvm1 instant-client-10.1]# pwd
> /opt/oracle/app/instant-client-10.1
> [root@saleen_webvm1 instant-client-10.1]# ls -alZ
> drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t .
> drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t ..
> -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:usr_t classes12.jar
> drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t docs
> -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:usr_t glogin.sql
> lrwxrwxrwx root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libclntsh.so
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libclntsh.so.10.1
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libnnz10.so
> lrwxrwxrwx root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libocci.so
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libocci.so.10.1
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libociei.so
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libocijdbc10.so
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t libsqlplus.so
> -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:usr_t ojdbc14.jar
> -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:usr_t README_IC.htm
> drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t sdk
> -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:usr_t sqlplus
> -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:usr_t tnsnames.ora
>
> When try to start apache, I get some errors in audit.log and apache
> fails to start.
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1186086032.546:60): avc: denied { execstack } for
> pid=2852 comm="httpd" scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> tcontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tclass=process
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1186086032.546:60): arch=c000003e syscall=10
> success=no exit=-13 a0=7fff9c992000 a1=1000 a2=1000007 a3=4 items=0
> ppid=2851 pid=2852 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd"
> subj=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null)
> type=AVC msg=audit(1186088202.755:61): avc: denied { execute } for
> pid=2881 comm="httpd" name="libclntsh.so.10.1" dev=xvda3 ino=2703819
> scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0
> tclass=file
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1186088202.755:61): arch=c000003e syscall=9
> success=no exit=-13 a0=0 a1=ec0b08 a2=5 a3=802 items=0 ppid=2880
> pid=2881 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
> fsgid=0 tty=(none) comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd"
> subj=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null)
> type=AVC_PATH msg=audit(1186088202.755:61):
> path="/opt/oracle/app/instant-client-10.1/libclntsh.so.10.1"
>
> audit2allow is telling me to add the following rules:
>
> # audit2allow < audit.log
> allow httpd_t self:process execstack;
> allow httpd_t usr_t:file execute;
>
> My question/concerns are the following:
>
> 1. What risks do I incur by making the process stack executable?
it will incur the security risk, such as buffer overflow.
Stack memory is not executable on most OSes these days, and
will not change.
you can first use execstack to check whether your program
really need executable stack(you must have prelink firstly):
for example:
#execstack -q /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2/libart_lgpl_2.so.2
X libart_lgpl_2.so.2
and use execstack to remove the p_flags field of PT_GNU_STACK header
entry, and run program to see whether it really need stack to be
executable:
execstack -c libart_lgpl_2.so.2
if yes, you also can use boolean to allow stack to be executed:
setsebool [-P] allow_execstack 1
this will make all program stack executable, and there are still:
allow_java_execstack,allow_mplayer_execstack
use these booleans, you will not need write policy for executable
stack.
> 2. If I am reading the second rule correctly, its asking to allow
> httpd_t to execute user_t files?
i wonder why is your libraries usr_t, not lib_t, if your libs are
lib_t, httpd_t can execute those files
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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