8.120. libselinux

Bug Fixes

BZ#753675

When attempting to run the virt-manager utility over SSH X11 forwarding, SELinux prevented the D-Bus system from performing actions even if SELinux was in permissive mode. As a consequence, such attempts failed and an AVC denial message was logged. With this update, a patch has been provided to fix this bug, and SELinux in permissive mode no longer blocks D-Bus in the described scenario.

BZ#1011109

Prior to this update, the selinux(8) manual page contained outdated information. This manual page has been updated, and SELinux is now documented correctly.

BZ#1025507

The Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) uses SELinux permissions to check if a connecting user is allowed to query the cache. However, two permissions, NSCD__GETNETGRP and NSCD__SHMEMNETGRP, were missing from the SELinux list of permissions. Consequently, the netgroup caching worked only when SELinux was running in permissive mode. The missing permissions have been added to the list, and the netgroup caching now works as expected.

BZ#1091857

Previously, the matchpathcon utility did not handle non-existent files or directories properly; the "matchpathcon -V" command verified the files of directories instead of specifying that they did not exist. The underlying source code has been modified to fix this bug, and matchpathcon now correctly recognizes non-existent files or directories. As a result, an error message is returned when a file or directory do not exist.

BZ#1096816

It was not possible to add a new user inside a Docker container because SELinux in enforcing or permissive mode incorrectly blocked an attempt to modify the /etc/passwd file. With this update, when the /selinux/ or /sys/fs/selinux/ directories are mounted as read-only, the libselinux library acts as if SELinux is disabled. This behavior stops SELinux-aware applications from attempting to perform SELinux actions inside a container, and /etc/passwd can now be modified as expected.