The CIFSwitch security flaw identified as CVE-2026-46243 has officially received a patched kernel for AlmaLinux that is now live in standard production repositories. You just need to refresh your package metadata and run a quick system upgrade before rebooting your machine.

CIFSwitch (CVE-2026-46243) Patches Released

CIFSwitch (CVE-2026-46243) Patches Released

Update: CVE assigned and patched kernels are now in production
2026-06-02 15:31 UTC: The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2026-46243, and the patched kernels have been released to the production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run:
sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade
sudo reboot
Thanks to everyone in the community who helped verify these builds. The kernels released to production are bit for bit identical to those that were in testing. The rest of this post is preserved as originally published.

CIFSwitch (CVE-2026-46243) Patches Released