Dnsmasq starts in wrong context after interface cycling?
Robert Sharp <selinux-/[email protected]> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:12:36 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened |
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I had a problem with Dnsmasq that led to my last post on understanding where policies come from. Now that I know and have had dnsmasq comfortably running with udp comms to unbound on port 553, I have run into the original problem that I thought I had caused. I suppose I did cause it, but not in the way I imagined. I was awash again with AVCs from dnsmasq, but this time I took a closer look and realised the source context was not as expected. Instead of running in dnsmasq_t, it was running in resolvconf_t. I checked the binary and that was as expected so I restarted using run_init just to see if that was the problem, and it was! So now dnsmasq is running in the correct context, but how did it ever get to resolvconf_t? Surely if I had restarted it without using run_init then it would have been in sysadm_t? One possibility is that it got into this context when my interface went down and up again. I had a problem last night with my Virgin fibre modem and I noticed that after the inevitable hardware reset, a bunch of services had been restarted. Besides the issue that dnsmasq is not bound to the interface in question, I guess I could test it quite easily, although I am not sure everyone else on the LAN will be too keen. Any thoughts welcome Robert Sharp