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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2026-59677 EUVD-2026-47939GHSA-gm4w-wf6f-2ghm

Process Kill Attack Vector in killall() in seunshare

Published Jul 23, 2026 · Updated Jul 23, 2026 · Assigned by suse

Description

A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows a user that is running in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in
unconfined context

This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
SELinuxProject selinux ≤ 3.10 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 policycoreutils 2.7-1 —
Debian 14 selinux-python 3.7-1 —
Debian 13 policycoreutils 2.7-1 —
Debian 13 selinux-python 3.7-1 —
Debian 12 policycoreutils 2.7-1 —
Debian 12 selinux-python No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 policycoreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS policycoreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS policycoreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS policycoreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS policycoreutils No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS selinux +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS selinux +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS policycoreutils No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 policycoreutils +8 3.11-2.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:44343

Advisories 1

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