antivirus_selinux(8)

💖 antivirus_selinux(8) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the antivirus_selinux(8) page — the SELinux Policy one for antivirus, literally the whole glow-up guide for keeping your antivirus daemons on a leash. pull up a chair, we're getting into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

antivirus_selinux — the Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the antivirus processes. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🔥

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the antivirus processes via flexible mandatory access control. yes ma'am, mandatory — not optional, not "if you feel like it" 💅

The antivirus processes execute with the antivirus_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep antivirus_t

go check, i'll wait 🫶

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🦋 ENTRYPOINTS 🦋

The antivirus_t SELinux type can be entered via the antivirus_exec_t file type. that's the door, it's the only door, no sneaking in through the window 😭

The default entrypoint paths for the antivirus_t domain are the following:

/usr/bin/amavisd.*
/usr/bin/amavi
/usr/bin/clamd
/usr/bin/clamscan
/usr/bin/clamdscan
/usr/bin/freshclam
/usr/bin/clamav-milter
/usr/lib/AntiVir/antivir

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👑 PROCESS TYPES 👑

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system. one domain per process, no sharing, we don't do that here ⭐

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux antivirus policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their antivirus processes in as secure a method as possible. flexible and secure, we love a multitasker 💖

The following process types are defined for antivirus:

antivirus_t

Note: semanage permissive -a antivirus_t can be used to make the process type antivirus_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated. so like, it won't block you, but it will still snitch to the logs 🙈

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🍓 BOOLEANS 🍓

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. antivirus policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run antivirus with the tightest access possible. least privilege is the aesthetic, periodt 💅

If you want to determine whether antivirus programs can use JIT compiler, you must turn on the antivirus_use_jit boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P antivirus_use_jit 1

If you want to dontaudit all daemons scheduling requests (setsched, sys_nice), you must turn on the daemons_dontaudit_scheduling boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P daemons_dontaudit_scheduling 1

If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the nis_enabled boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P nis_enabled 1

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🧚 NSSWITCH DOMAIN 🧚

If you want to allow users to resolve user passwd entries directly from ldap rather then using a sssd server for the antivirus_t, you must turn on the authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap boolean.

setsebool -P authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap 1

If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos for the antivirus_t, you must turn on the kerberos_enabled boolean.

setsebool -P kerberos_enabled 1

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🌈 MANAGED FILES 🌈

The SELinux process type antivirus_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions. like, SELinux said yes but your user still has to have the keys, iykyk 🔑

antivirus_db_t

/var/amavis(/.*)?
/var/clamav(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamd.*
/var/lib/amavis(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamav(/.*)?
/var/virusmails(/.*)?
/var/opt/f-secure(/.*)?
/var/spool/amavisd(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs(/.*)?

antivirus_home_t

(no default paths listed, it's giving mysterious 🦋)

antivirus_log_t

/var/log/clamd.*
/var/log/clamav.*
/var/log/freshclam.*
/var/log/amavisd.log.*
/var/log/clamav/freshclam.*

antivirus_tmp_t

(no default paths listed 👀)

antivirus_var_run_t

/run/clamd.*
/run/clamav.*
/run/amavis(d)?(/.*)?
/run/amavis(d)?/clamd.pid
/run/amavisd-snmp-subagent.pid

cluster_conf_t

/etc/cluster(/.*)?

cluster_var_lib_t

/var/lib/pcsd(/.*)?
/var/lib/cluster(/.*)?
/var/lib/openais(/.*)?
/var/lib/pengine(/.*)?
/var/lib/corosync(/.*)?
/usr/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/heartbeat(/.*)?
/var/lib/pacemaker(/.*)?

cluster_var_run_t

/run/crm(/.*)?
/run/cman_.*
/run/rsctmp(/.*)?
/run/aisexec.*
/run/heartbeat(/.*)?
/run/pcsd-ruby.socket
/run/corosync-qnetd(/.*)?
/run/corosync-qdevice(/.*)?
/run/pcsd.socket
/run/corosync.pid
/run/cpglockd.pid
/run/rgmanager.pid
/run/cluster/rgmanager.sk

krb5_host_rcache_t

/var/tmp/krb5_0.rcache2
/var/cache/krb5rcache(/.*)?
/var/tmp/nfs_0
/var/tmp/DNS_25
/var/tmp/host_0
/var/tmp/imap_0
/var/tmp/HTTP_23
/var/tmp/HTTP_48
/var/tmp/ldap_55
/var/tmp/ldap_487
/var/tmp/ldapmap1_0

root_t

/sysroot/.aleph-version.json
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/.*-atomic/deploy(/.*)?
/
/initrd
/var/lib/ntp

snmpd_var_lib_t

/var/agentx(/.*)?
/var/net-snmp(/.*)
/var/lib/snmp(/.*)?
/var/net-snmp(/.*)?
/var/lib/net-snmp(/.*)?
/var/spool/snmptt(/.*)?
/usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index

systemd_passwd_var_run_t

/run/systemd/ask-password(/.*)?
/run/systemd/ask-password-block(/.*)?

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💜 FILE CONTEXTS 💜

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. yes, every file gets a little label, it's a whole accessory situation 🎀

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls.

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux antivirus policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their antivirus processes in as secure a method as possible.

💫 EQUIVALENCE DIRECTORIES 💫

antivirus policy stores data with multiple different file context types under the /var/lib/clamav directory. If you would like to store the data in a different directory you can use the semanage command to create an equivalence mapping. If you wanted to store this data under the /srv directory you would execute the following command:

semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/clamav /srv/clamav
restorecon -R -v /srv/clamav

look at that, relocating the whole data situation, we love a fresh start ✨

⭐ STANDARD FILE CONTEXT ⭐

SELinux defines the file context types for the antivirus, if you wanted to store files with these types in a different paths, you need to execute the semanage command to specify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.

semanage fcontext -a -t antivirus_exec_t '/srv/antivirus/content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myantivirus_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files. regex girlies rise 🙈

The following file types are defined for antivirus:

antivirus_conf_t

• Set files with the antivirus_conf_t type, if you want to treat the files as antivirus configuration data, usually stored under the /etc directory.

Paths:

/etc/amavis(d)?.conf
/etc/amavisd(/.*)?

antivirus_db_t

• Set files with the antivirus_db_t type, if you want to treat the files as antivirus database content.

Paths:

/var/amavis(/.*)?
/var/clamav(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamd.*
/var/lib/amavis(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamav(/.*)?
/var/virusmails(/.*)?
/var/opt/f-secure(/.*)?
/var/spool/amavisd(/.*)?
/var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs(/.*)?

antivirus_exec_t

• Set files with the antivirus_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the antivirus_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/amavisd.*
/usr/bin/amavi
/usr/bin/clamd
/usr/bin/clamscan
/usr/bin/clamdscan
/usr/bin/freshclam
/usr/bin/clamav-milter
/usr/lib/AntiVir/antivir

antivirus_home_t

• Set files with the antivirus_home_t type, if you want to store antivirus files in the users home directory.

antivirus_initrc_exec_t

• Set files with the antivirus_initrc_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the antivirus_initrc_t domain.

Paths:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.*
/etc/rc.d/init.d/amavis
/etc/rc.d/init.d/amavisd-snmp

antivirus_log_t

• Set files with the antivirus_log_t type, if you want to treat the data as antivirus log data, usually stored under the /var/log directory.

Paths:

/var/log/clamd.*
/var/log/clamav.*
/var/log/freshclam.*
/var/log/amavisd.log.*
/var/log/clamav/freshclam.*

antivirus_tmp_t

• Set files with the antivirus_tmp_t type, if you want to store antivirus temporary files in the /tmp directories.

antivirus_unit_file_t

• Set files with the antivirus_unit_file_t type, if you want to treat the files as antivirus unit content.

Paths:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd.*
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd.*
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mimedefang.service

antivirus_var_run_t

• Set files with the antivirus_var_run_t type, if you want to store the antivirus files under the /run or /var/run directory.

Paths:

/run/clamd.*
/run/clamav.*
/run/amavis(d)?(/.*)?
/run/amavis(d)?/clamd.pid
/run/amavisd-snmp-subagent.pid

Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels. temporary is cute for testing, but if you want it to stay, do it properly 💅

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🔥 COMMANDS 🔥

semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.

semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.

semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans.

system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings. yes bestie, a GUI, for when the terminal is doing too much 🫶

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage. a bot wrote this and honestly? it ate 💅

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

selinux(8), antivirus(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1), sepolicy(8), setsebool(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was antivirus 26-10-06 antivirus_selinux(8) — go forth and label responsibly, mwah 💖✨