CVE-2026-46302

Medium

Description

In 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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJun 8, 2026
First seenJun 8, 2026

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel2.6.37 ≤ v < 7.0.7, 7.17.0.7

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