Re: sandox -X not working with recent Xephyr

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On 09/19/2016 02:02 PM, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:39:45AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 09/18/2016 02:39 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems that sandbox -X is not working anymore on debian.
>>>
>>> Xephyr (1.18.4) is giving me the following error:
>>>
>>> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be
>>> created.
>>>
>>> The X socket is not created inside the sandbox and then the application
>>> can obviously not connect to it.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how this could be fixed, maybe let's seunshare create that
>>> directory?
>>
>> I don't see this error on Fedora, which also has Xephyr 1.18.4, so maybe
>> they have a fix?
>>
>> That is using the Fedora policycoreutils-sandbox package, which yields a
>> functioning sandbox -X, e.g. sandbox -X firefox works correctly.
>>
>> However, if I install sandbox from upstream, e.g.
>>
>> cd selinux
>> sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/lib64 SHLIBDIR=/lib64 install install-pywrap relabel
>>
>> then sandbox -X firefox fails immediately, and I have the following in
>> the audit log:
>> type=SELINUX_ERR msg=audit(1474295659.424:2189):
>> op=security_bounded_transition seresult=denied
>> oldcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_x_t:s0:c658,c1002
>> newcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:sandbox_x_client_t:s0:c658,c1002
> 
> It's most likely not related. Same error can be seen in stock Fedora.
> 
>> So I guess there are other patches in the Fedora package that are needed?
> 
> It's this patch
> https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux/commit/2540625875ebdfe0ef48798437288e8a07aa853d
> 
> But the patch bellow works too:
> 
> --- a/policycoreutils/sandbox/sandboxX.sh
> +++ b/policycoreutils/sandbox/sandboxX.sh
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ cat > ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml << EOF
>  </openbox_config>
>  EOF
>  
> -(/usr/bin/Xephyr -resizeable -title "$TITLE" -terminate -screen $SCREENSIZE -dpi $DPI -nolisten tcp -displayfd 5 5>&1 2>/dev/null) | while read D; do
> +(/usr/bin/Xephyr -resizeable -title "$TITLE" -screen $SCREENSIZE -dpi $DPI -nolisten tcp -displayfd 5 5>&1 2>/dev/null) | while read D; do
>      export DISPLAY=:$D
>      cat > ~/seremote << __EOF
>  #!/bin/sh
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure which one is correct.

I don't know either, but the one above does work and seems simpler, so
let's go with that one.


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