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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46333" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-15T12:58:44.599Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:21:42.063Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46333" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46333.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46333" title: "ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic\n\nThe 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of\nthe task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and\nmakes no sense when you don't have an associated mm.\n\nAnd almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task\nhas a mm pointer.\n\nBut we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to\ncheck various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically\nexplicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS). Including for\nthreads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel\nthreads).\n\nIt's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is.\n\nThe ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to\nbe uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the\ntraditional \"drop capabilities\" model doesn't make any difference for\nthis all.\n\nMake it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a\nMM pointer, we'll use a cached \"last dumpability\" flag if the thread\never had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never\nset), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93d4ba49d18e3d7fb41a9927c2d0cca5e9dfefd6"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15b828a46f305ae9f05a7c16914b3ce273474205"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4709234fd1b95136ceb789f639b1e7ea5de1b181"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f907d345bae8f4b3f004c5abc56bf2dfb851ea7"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e5b51e74a40d377bcd3081dd33fbaa0e1aa7e3d"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a93a4fac7b6051d3be7cd1b015fe7320cd0404d"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01363cb3fbd0238ffdeb09f53e9039c9edf8a730"},{"version":"bfedb589252c01fa505ac9f6f2a3d5d68d707ef4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31e62c2ebbfdc3fe3dbdf5e02c92a9dc67087a3a"},{"version":"d5b3e840dbf6dd2c0f30b5982b6f5ecd49e46b12","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"03eed7afbc09e061f66b448daf7863174c3dc3f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e45692fa1aea06676449b63ef3c2b6e1e72b7578","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"694a95fa6dae4991f16cda333d897ea063021fed","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.52","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.4.40","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.8.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"4.9.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"5.10.256","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.207","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.139","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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