Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1375 - selinux-policy bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

selinux-policy bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated selinux-policy packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The selinux-policy packages contain the rules that govern how confined processes run on the system.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • When the /etc/nsswitch.conf file was modified so that the SSSD service was used for various lookups, certain services were not able to communicate with SSSD due to insufficient SELinux policy rules. With this update, the SELinux policy has been modified to allow the services to work as expected in this situation. (BZ#1198047, BZ#1198057, BZ#1198060, BZ#1198064, BZ#1198071, BZ#1198077, BZ#1198165, BZ#1202935, BZ#1203756, BZ#1207140, BZ#1212729)

  • With this update, SELinux policy rules for the glusterd, ctdbd, samba, and nagios services have been fixed to allow the Gluster layer product to work with SELinux properly. (BZ#1198436, BZ#1215632, BZ#1228197, BZ#1228197, BZ#1219317, BZ#1221929)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

  • When writing SELinux policy rules that allow random services to read or execute general files located, for example, in the /etc/ or /usr/ directories, policy writers had to add additional rules for each service. These updated selinux-policy packages introduce the new "base_ro_file_type" and "base_file_type" SELinux attributes, which policy writers can use to declare global rules against a rule per service. (BZ#1153712)

Users of selinux-policy are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-279.el6.noarch.rpm
  • selinux-policy-3.7.19-279.el6.noarch.rpm
  • selinux-policy-doc-3.7.19-279.el6.noarch.rpm
  • selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-279.el6.noarch.rpm
  • selinux-policy-3.7.19-279.el6.src.rpm
  • selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-279.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information