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CVE-2026-46302
selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy
Published 2026-06-08 (4 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem security/selinux. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2026-46302 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | vulnerable | 6.1.190-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication. |
| Debian 13trixie | vulnerable | 6.12.113-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series trixie tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for trixie have historically landed a median of 11 days after publication. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 7.0.7-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.0.7-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 7.0.7-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.0.7-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
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.
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
- What this is
- SELINUX SECURITY MODULEMAINTAINERS section matched on security/selinux/ · selinux@vger.kernel.org · Supported
Check it on the machine
grep -w CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.
- bookwormy
- trixieYnot built on armel/rpi
- forky, sidy
- y
- built into the kernel image on every flavour - only a patch removes it
- Y
- built in where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
- Build switch
- CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2026-06-08 (4 months ago)source
- CVSS
- no vector published, unrated
- Attack vector
- not published
- EPSS
- 0.10%, higher than 0.8% of all CVEssource
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- not yet assignedsource
- Subsystem
- security/selinux
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 2.6.37 | 7.0.7 | 714362f3779d |
| 2.6.37 | 7.1 | a02cd6805562 |
Why the CNA scored it this way
The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2026-46302, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.