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5.300. setroubleshoot

Updated setroubleshoot packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The setroubleshoot packages provide tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When AVC messages are returned, an alert can be generated that provides information about the problem and helps to track its resolution. Alerts can be customized to user preference. The same tools can used to process log files.

Bug Fix

BZ#832186
Previously, SELinux Alert Browser did not display alerts even if selinux denials were presented. This was caused by sedispatch, which did not handle audit messages correctly, and users were not able to fix their SELinux issues according to the SELinux alerts. With this update, this bug has been fixed so that users are now able to fix their SELinux issues using setroubleshoot, as expected.
All users of setroubleshoot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated setroubleshoot packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The setroubleshoot packages provide tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When AVC messages are returned, an alert can be generated that provides information about the problem and helps to track its resolution. Alerts can be customized to user preference. The same tools can be used to process log files.

Bug Fixes

BZ#757857
Previously, when the system produced a large amount of SELinux denials, the setroubleshootd daemon continued to process all of these denials and increased its memory consumption. Consequently, a memory leak could occur. This bug has been fixed and memory leaks no longer occur in the described scenario.
BZ#633213
When a duplicated command-line option was passed to the sealert utility, sealert terminated with an error message. With this update, the duplicate options are ignored and sealert works as expected, thus fixing this bug.
BZ#575686
Previously, some translations for setroubleshoot were incomplete or missing. This update provides complete translations for 22 languages.
Users of setroubleshoot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.