Package: iptables Version: 1.4.21-2+b1 Severity: normal type=AVC msg=audit(1443760532.924:27): avc: denied { read write } for pid=273 comm="modprobe" path="socket:[8859]" dev="sockfs" ino=8859 scontext=system_u:system_r:insmod_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket permissive=0
When booting a SE Linux system in the "strict" configuration the above error is logged on boot. iptables needs to either close the file handle for the Unix domain socket before executing modprobe or set it to close on exec. While this is mostly a cosmetic error it has the potential for unexpected behavior on a non-SE system if modprobe was to try to access that file handle. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages iptables depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libnfnetlink0 1.0.1-3 ii libxtables10 1.4.21-2+b1 iptables recommends no packages. iptables suggests no packages. -- no debconf information