Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 8, 2026· Updated Oct 21, 2026
CVE-2026-46302
CVE-2026-46302
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.
Affected products
5- osv-coords4 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/linux-gcp-6.18-bootc-boot-installedpkg:apk/chainguard/linux-qemu-6.18-bootc-boot-installedpkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.18.38-r2+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.38-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.38-r2
- (no CPE)range: >= 2.6.37, < 6.6.160
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.12-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/714362f3779dfa453a78ced32396a72726962a41nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ed712134a3db0075bfe9a0f8536c48728ec745envd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c24d2e190b955baf3a95e05d34b192f61bd201b3nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8cafd0226d5df682d1f4ea978a4318fe3a11210nvd
News mentions
1- Linux Kernel: 25 Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Single Batch on June 8, 2026Vypr Intelligence · Jun 8, 2026