firefox problems with: browser_confine_unconfined --> on
Hi,
I'm looking forward do confine users (firefox, thunderbird). I played
with xguest_u and I liked the behavior of firefox (home not writeable
except ~/Downloads, ~/.mozilla), but I need other programms
(thunderbird, ssh) to connect to the internet too, so I wanted to try
the usual unconfined_u with browser_confine_unconfined set.
I didn't find mutch about this boolean but I wanted to see, if with this
boolean set, firefox of an unconfined user will behave like firefox of
xguest_u.
After setting the boolean firefox runs in its own domain
(unconfined_mozilla_t) that looks fine.
When I tried to save a picture to see if I can write to ~/ (not
~/Download) firefox hangs (immediately after klicking on "Save Image
As...") and I had to use kill to terminate it.
If I set browser_confine_unconfined to 0 this problem doesn't occur.
Should firefox (unconfined_mozilla_t) behave like firefox of xguest_u,
or is this boolean for something different?
thanks,
Christoph A.
PS: I'm using FC9.
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05-13-2008, 12:59 PM
Daniel J Walsh
firefox problems with: browser_confine_unconfined --> on
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Christoph A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking forward do confine users (firefox, thunderbird). I played
> with xguest_u and I liked the behavior of firefox (home not writeable
> except ~/Downloads, ~/.mozilla), but I need other programms
> (thunderbird, ssh) to connect to the internet too, so I wanted to try
> the usual unconfined_u with browser_confine_unconfined set.
>
> I didn't find mutch about this boolean but I wanted to see, if with this
> boolean set, firefox of an unconfined user will behave like firefox of
> xguest_u.
>
> After setting the boolean firefox runs in its own domain
> (unconfined_mozilla_t) that looks fine.
>
> When I tried to save a picture to see if I can write to ~/ (not
> ~/Download) firefox hangs (immediately after klicking on "Save Image
> As...") and I had to use kill to terminate it.
>
> observing the audit.log file with tail -f shows:
>
> type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1210554417.821:80): user pid=1648 uid=81
> auid=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> msg='avc: denied { send_msg } for msgtype=method_return dest=:1.93
> spid=1783 tpid=3412 scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_mozi lla_t:s0 tclass=dbus :
> exe="/bin/dbus-daemon" (sauid=81, hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?)'
>
> If I set browser_confine_unconfined to 0 this problem doesn't occur.
>
> Should firefox (unconfined_mozilla_t) behave like firefox of xguest_u,
> or is this boolean for something different?
>
> thanks,
> Christoph A.
> PS: I'm using FC9.
>
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No this seems like something that should be allowed.
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> No this seems like something that should be allowed.
Thank you for your response.
So browser_confine_unconfined=1 is the right way to confine firefox (of
unconfined_u) like firefox of guest_u?
thanks in advance
Christoph A.
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05-13-2008, 01:25 PM
Daniel J Walsh
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Christoph A. wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>>> type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1210554417.821:80): user pid=1648 uid=81
>>> auid=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
>>> msg='avc: denied { send_msg } for msgtype=method_return dest=:1.93
>>> spid=1783 tpid=3412 scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0
>>> tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_mozi lla_t:s0 tclass=dbus :
>>> exe="/bin/dbus-daemon" (sauid=81, hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?)'
>
>> No this seems like something that should be allowed.
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> So browser_confine_unconfined=1 is the right way to confine firefox (of
> unconfined_u) like firefox of guest_u?
>
> thanks in advance
> Christoph A.
Well I don't really believe in confining firefox in this way, because of
the transitions available.
You can confine nsplugin though
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/15700.html
The problem with confining firefox is somewhat covered in this article,
but where it really breaks is in helper applications.
unconfined_mozilla_t runs ooffice and office ends up in
unconfined_mozilla_t but if thunderbird or you launch ooffice directly
it runs unconfined_t and things get confused.
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"Christoph A."
firefox problems with: browser_confine_unconfined --> on
Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Well I don't really believe in confining firefox in this way, because of
> the transitions available.
>
>
> You can confine nsplugin though
>
> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/15700.html
>
>
> The problem with confining firefox is somewhat covered in this article,
> but where it really breaks is in helper applications.
Yes, I'm a reader of your blog (thanks for posting this interessting
informations)
> unconfined_mozilla_t runs ooffice and office ends up in
> unconfined_mozilla_t but if thunderbird or you launch ooffice directly
> it runs unconfined_t and things get confused.
For me it would be fine to save a file (pdf, odt, ..) to disk
(~/Downloads) prior to open it with the apropriate program (pdf-reader,
openoffice, ...) in the unconfined_t domain and not starting these
programs directly within firefox.
I admit that normal enduser would not like this extra step just to get
more security.
regards,
Christoph A.
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