[DSE-Dev] Bug#758080: selinux-policy-default: Installing sane-utils fails with 'Failed to issue method call: Access denied' if enforcing

[Andreas Florath]

Package: selinux-policy-default
Version: 2:2.20140421-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

if SELinux is set to enforcing it is not possible to install sane-utils:

root at debselinux01:~# sestatus 
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name:             default
Current mode:                   enforcing
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy MLS status:              enabled
Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
Max kernel policy version:      29
root at debselinux01:~# se_apt-get install sane-utils
[...]
Setting up sane-utils (1.0.24-1.1+b1) ...
Adding saned group and user...
Adding user saned to group scanner
Failed to issue method call: Access denied
invoke-rc.d: initscript saned, action "start" failed.
saned couldn't start; check your inetd configuration and README.Debian
[...]

The following AVCs are logged:

type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1407994334.044:122): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='avc:  denied  { status } for auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 path="/etc/init.d/saned" cmdline="systemctl -p LoadState show saned.service" scontext=system_u:system_r:dpkg_script_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_exec_t:s0 tclass=service  exe="/lib/systemd/systemd" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'
type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1407994334.080:123): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='avc:  denied  { start } for auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 path="/etc/init.d/saned" cmdline="systemctl start saned.service" scontext=system_u:system_r:dpkg_script_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_exec_t:s0 tclass=service  exe="/lib/systemd/systemd" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'

Kind regards

Andre

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages selinux-policy-default depends on:
ii  libpam-modules   1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1      2.3-1
ii  libsepol1        2.3-1
ii  policycoreutils  2.3-1
ii  python           2.7.8-1
ii  selinux-utils    2.3-1

Versions of packages selinux-policy-default recommends:
ii  checkpolicy  2.3-1
ii  setools      3.3.8-3

Versions of packages selinux-policy-default suggests:
pn  logcheck        <none>
pn  syslog-summary  <none>

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