CVE-2026-46302

NameCVE-2026-46302
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy Currently there can only be a single open of /sys/fs/selinux/policy at any time. This allows any process to block any other process from reading the kernel policy. The original motivation seems to have been a mix of preventing an inconsistent view of the policy size and preventing userspace from allocating kernel memory without bound, but this is arguably equally bad. Eliminate the policy_opened flag and shrink the critical section that the policy mutex is held. While we are making changes here, drop a couple of extraneous BUG_ONs.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)5.10.257-1vulnerable
bookworm6.1.170-3vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.174-1vulnerable
trixie6.12.86-1vulnerable
trixie (security)6.12.90-2vulnerable
forky, sid7.0.10-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsource(unstable)7.0.7-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965 (7.1-rc3)

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