CVE-2026-46302
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- Published
- 2026-06-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
Affected products
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8cafd0226d5df682d1f4ea978a4318fe3a11210
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ed712134a3db0075bfe9a0f8536c48728ec745e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c24d2e190b955baf3a95e05d34b192f61bd201b3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/714362f3779dfa453a78ced32396a72726962a41
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965
