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Issue

If I put the httpd_sys_content_t context to my CGI files (instead of httpd_sys_script_exec_t), I can still run these CGI through my web server. Shouldn't SELinux should prevent Apache from running CGI files without the httpd_sys_script_exec_t context?

$ ps -Zu apache
LABEL                             PID TTY          TIME CMD
unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 8487 ?        00:00:00 httpd

$ ls -lZ /var/www/cgi-bin/mycgi_test.sh 
-rwx---r-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /var/www/cgi-bin/mycgi_test.sh

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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