Bug 2486432 (CVE-2026-46302) - CVE-2026-46302 kernel: selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy
Summary: CVE-2026-46302 kernel: selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-46302
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-08 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-08 18:57 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-08 17:01:34 UTC
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.


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