CVE-2026-46302

MEDIUM

selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 1.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 2.6.37 - 7.0.7linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.37
Linux/Linux < 7.0.7
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 714362f3779dfa453a78ced32396a72726962a41
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965
Linux/Linux 2.6.37
Linux/Linux 7.0.7 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1
Linux/Linux 7.1-rc3
Linux/Linux cee74f47a6baba0ac457e87687fdcf0abd599f0a - 714362f3779dfa453a78ced32396a72726962a41
... and 3 more
Published Jun 08, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 08, 2026