CVE-2026-46298: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler While executing ->ioctl handler or ->release handler, if an interrupt fires on the same cpu, then we can enter into a deadlock. This patch fixes both these handlers to take spin_lock_irq{save|restore} versions of the lock to prevent this deadlock.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.18, before 7.0.7 (fixed in 7.0.7); version 7.1 only

Published 2026-06-08. Last modified 2026-07-23.