Re: can_network patch.

[Thomas Bleher <bleher@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>]

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* Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> [2004-12-10 20:04]:
> On Saturday 11 December 2004 05:01, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > >On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:06, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > >>When installing a package within firefox, it attemps to exec
> > >>system-config-packages which blows up because
> > >>*-mozilla-t can not run userhelper apps.
> > >
> > >Installing a package within firefox?  If you are talking about something
> > >firefox downloaded, then why does it use system-config-packages?  And I
> > >would expect that you would end up installing any such packages local to
> > >the user's home directory at most (and even then only if policy allows
> > >writing to it), not on a system-wide basis.
> >
> > You can trigger it by executing
> >  firefox selinux-policy-strict-1.19.12-1.src.rpm
> 
> We have mozilla running in it's own domain to limit the risk of exploits of 
> mozilla taking over the rest of the system.  Allowing mozilla to install 
> packages seems to directly contradict this aim.
> 
> Maybe we should just remove the mozilla policy?

Or add a boolean to control the transition from the userdomain to
mozilla. Then we can have a locked down policy for people who just want
to securely browse the web. People who want all the bells and whistles
can turn the transition off at the cost of higher exposure.

Thomas

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