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FKIE_CVE-2025-39776

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-11 17:15 - Updated: 2026-10-19 21:10

Severity

7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args() The mm/debug_vm_pagetable test allocates manually page table entries for the tests it runs, using also its manually allocated mm_struct. That in itself is ok, but when it exits, at destroy_args() it fails to clear those entries with the *_clear functions. The problem is that leaves stale entries. If another process allocates an mm_struct with a pgd at the same address, it may end up running into the stale entry. This is happening in practice on a debug kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y, for example this is the output with some extra debugging I added (it prints a warning trace if pgtables_bytes goes negative, in addition to the warning at check_mm() function): [ 2.539353] debug_vm_pgtable: [get_random_vaddr ]: random_vaddr is 0x7ea247140000 [ 2.539366] kmem_cache info [ 2.539374] kmem_cachep 0x000000002ce82385 - freelist 0x0000000000000000 - offset 0x508 [ 2.539447] debug_vm_pgtable: [init_args ]: args->mm is 0x000000002267cc9e (...) [ 2.552800] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 116 at include/linux/mm.h:2841 free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0 [ 2.552816] Modules linked in: [ 2.552843] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug #1 VOLUNTARY [ 2.552859] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW910.00 (VL910_062) hv:phyp pSeries [ 2.552872] NIP: c0000000007eef3c LR: c0000000007eef30 CTR: c0000000003d8c90 [ 2.552885] REGS: c0000000622e73b0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug) [ 2.552899] MSR: 800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24002822 XER: 0000000a [ 2.552954] CFAR: c0000000008f03f0 IRQMASK: 0 [ 2.552954] GPR00: c0000000007eef30 c0000000622e7650 c000000002b1ac00 0000000000000001 [ 2.552954] GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000007eef30 ffffffffffffffff [ 2.552954] GPR08: 00000000ffff00f5 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 0000000000004000 [ 2.552954] GPR12: 00000003fa440000 c000000017ffa300 c0000000051d9f80 ffffffffffffffdb [ 2.552954] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 000000000000000a 60000000000000e0 [ 2.552954] GPR20: 4080000000000000 c0000000113af038 00007fffcf130000 0000700000000000 [ 2.552954] GPR24: c000000062a6a000 0000000000000001 8000000062a68000 0000000000000001 [ 2.552954] GPR28: 000000000000000a c000000062ebc600 0000000000002000 c000000062ebc760 [ 2.553170] NIP [c0000000007eef3c] free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0 [ 2.553185] LR [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 [ 2.553199] Call Trace: [ 2.553207] [c0000000622e7650] [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 (unreliable) [ 2.553229] [c0000000622e7750] [c0000000007f40b4] free_pgd_range+0x284/0x3b0 [ 2.553248] [c0000000622e7800] [c0000000007f4630] free_pgtables+0x450/0x570 [ 2.553274] [c0000000622e78e0] [c0000000008161c0] exit_mmap+0x250/0x650 [ 2.553292] [c0000000622e7a30] [c0000000001b95b8] __mmput+0x98/0x290 [ 2.558344] [c0000000622e7a80] [c0000000001d1018] exit_mm+0x118/0x1b0 [ 2.558361] [c0000000622e7ac0] [c0000000001d141c] do_exit+0x2ec/0x870 [ 2.558376] [c0000000622e7b60] [c0000000001d1ca8] do_group_exit+0x88/0x150 [ 2.558391] [c0000000622e7bb0] [c0000000001d1db8] sys_exit_group+0x48/0x50 [ 2.558407] [c0000000622e7be0] [c00000000003d810] system_call_exception+0x1e0/0x4c0 [ 2.558423] [c0000000622e7e50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec (...) [ 2.558892] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 2.559022] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:000000002267cc9e type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1 [ 2.559037] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -6144 Here the modprobe process ended up with an allocated mm_struct from the mm_struct slab that was used before by the debug_vm_pgtable test. That is not a problem, since the mm_stru ---truncated---

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d2a149611b8a94d24add9868c442a4af278658	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/561171db3b3eb759ba3f284dba7a76f4476ade03	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a9f2e5c49f05e3ea2c16674540a075a1b4be6f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63962ff932ef359925b94be2a88df6b4fd4fed0a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bf57a0709cd7c9088cea8de023d6f4fbf2518b0	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde30854bddfb5d69f30022b53c5955a41088b33	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Third Party Advisory
0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e	https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.17
linux	linux_kernel	6.17
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args()\n\nThe mm/debug_vm_pagetable test allocates manually page table entries for\nthe tests it runs, using also its manually allocated mm_struct.  That in\nitself is ok, but when it exits, at destroy_args() it fails to clear those\nentries with the *_clear functions.\n\nThe problem is that leaves stale entries.  If another process allocates an\nmm_struct with a pgd at the same address, it may end up running into the\nstale entry.  This is happening in practice on a debug kernel with\nCONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y, for example this is the output with some extra\ndebugging I added (it prints a warning trace if pgtables_bytes goes\nnegative, in addition to the warning at check_mm() function):\n\n[    2.539353] debug_vm_pgtable: [get_random_vaddr         ]: random_vaddr is 0x7ea247140000\n[    2.539366] kmem_cache info\n[    2.539374] kmem_cachep 0x000000002ce82385 - freelist 0x0000000000000000 - offset 0x508\n[    2.539447] debug_vm_pgtable: [init_args                ]: args-\u003emm is 0x000000002267cc9e\n(...)\n[    2.552800] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 116 at include/linux/mm.h:2841 free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[    2.552816] Modules linked in:\n[    2.552843] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug #1 VOLUNTARY\n[    2.552859] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW910.00 (VL910_062) hv:phyp pSeries\n[    2.552872] NIP:  c0000000007eef3c LR: c0000000007eef30 CTR: c0000000003d8c90\n[    2.552885] REGS: c0000000622e73b0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug)\n[    2.552899] MSR:  800000000282b033 \u003cSF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e  CR: 24002822  XER: 0000000a\n[    2.552954] CFAR: c0000000008f03f0 IRQMASK: 0\n[    2.552954] GPR00: c0000000007eef30 c0000000622e7650 c000000002b1ac00 0000000000000001\n[    2.552954] GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000007eef30 ffffffffffffffff\n[    2.552954] GPR08: 00000000ffff00f5 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 0000000000004000\n[    2.552954] GPR12: 00000003fa440000 c000000017ffa300 c0000000051d9f80 ffffffffffffffdb\n[    2.552954] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 000000000000000a 60000000000000e0\n[    2.552954] GPR20: 4080000000000000 c0000000113af038 00007fffcf130000 0000700000000000\n[    2.552954] GPR24: c000000062a6a000 0000000000000001 8000000062a68000 0000000000000001\n[    2.552954] GPR28: 000000000000000a c000000062ebc600 0000000000002000 c000000062ebc760\n[    2.553170] NIP [c0000000007eef3c] free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[    2.553185] LR [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0\n[    2.553199] Call Trace:\n[    2.553207] [c0000000622e7650] [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 (unreliable)\n[    2.553229] [c0000000622e7750] [c0000000007f40b4] free_pgd_range+0x284/0x3b0\n[    2.553248] [c0000000622e7800] [c0000000007f4630] free_pgtables+0x450/0x570\n[    2.553274] [c0000000622e78e0] [c0000000008161c0] exit_mmap+0x250/0x650\n[    2.553292] [c0000000622e7a30] [c0000000001b95b8] __mmput+0x98/0x290\n[    2.558344] [c0000000622e7a80] [c0000000001d1018] exit_mm+0x118/0x1b0\n[    2.558361] [c0000000622e7ac0] [c0000000001d141c] do_exit+0x2ec/0x870\n[    2.558376] [c0000000622e7b60] [c0000000001d1ca8] do_group_exit+0x88/0x150\n[    2.558391] [c0000000622e7bb0] [c0000000001d1db8] sys_exit_group+0x48/0x50\n[    2.558407] [c0000000622e7be0] [c00000000003d810] system_call_exception+0x1e0/0x4c0\n[    2.558423] [c0000000622e7e50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n(...)\n[    2.558892] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[    2.559022] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:000000002267cc9e type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1\n[    2.559037] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -6144\n\nHere the modprobe process ended up with an allocated mm_struct from the\nmm_struct slab that was used before by the debug_vm_pgtable test.  That is\nnot a problem, since the mm_stru\n---truncated---"
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      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nmm/debug_vm_pgtable: borrar entradas de la tabla de p\u00e1ginas en destroy_args()\n\nLa prueba mm/debug_vm_pagetable asigna manualmente entradas de la tabla de p\u00e1ginas para las pruebas que ejecuta, utilizando tambi\u00e9n su mm_struct asignada manualmente. Eso en s\u00ed mismo est\u00e1 bien, pero cuando sale, en destroy_args() no logra borrar esas entradas con las funciones *_clear.\n\nEl problema es que deja entradas obsoletas. Si otro proceso asigna una mm_struct con un pgd en la misma direcci\u00f3n, puede terminar encontr\u00e1ndose con la entrada obsoleta. Esto est\u00e1 ocurriendo en la pr\u00e1ctica en un kernel de depuraci\u00f3n con CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y, por ejemplo, esta es la salida con alguna depuraci\u00f3n adicional que agregu\u00e9 (imprime un rastro de advertencia si pgtables_bytes se vuelve negativo, adem\u00e1s de la advertencia en la funci\u00f3n check_mm()):\n\n[    2.539353] debug_vm_pgtable: [get_random_vaddr         ]: random_vaddr is 0x7ea247140000\n[    2.539366] kmem_cache info\n[    2.539374] kmem_cachep 0x000000002ce82385 - freelist 0x0000000000000000 - offset 0x508\n[    2.539447] debug_vm_pgtable: [init_args                ]: args-\u003emm is 0x000000002267cc9e\n(...)\n[    2.552800] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 116 at include/linux/mm.h:2841 free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[    2.552816] Modules linked in:\n[    2.552843] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug #1 VOLUNTARY\n[    2.552859] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW910.00 (VL910_062) hv:phyp pSeries\n[    2.552872] NIP:  c0000000007eef3c LR: c0000000007eef30 CTR: c0000000003d8c90\n[    2.552885] REGS: c0000000622e73b0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug)\n[    2.552899] MSR:  800000000282b033 \u003cSF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e  CR: 24002822  XER: 0000000a\n[    2.552954] CFAR: c0000000008f03f0 IRQMASK: 0\n[    2.552954] GPR00: c0000000007eef30 c0000000622e7650 c000000002b1ac00 0000000000000001\n[    2.552954] GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000007eef30 ffffffffffffffff\n[    2.552954] GPR08: 00000000ffff00f5 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 0000000000004000\n[    2.552954] GPR12: 00000003fa440000 c000000017ffa300 c0000000051d9f80 ffffffffffffffdb\n[    2.552954] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 000000000000000a 60000000000000e0\n[    2.552954] GPR20: 4080000000000000 c0000000113af038 00007fffcf130000 0000700000000000\n[    2.552954] GPR24: c000000062a6a000 0000000000000001 8000000062a68000 0000000000000001\n[    2.552954] GPR28: 000000000000000a c000000062ebc600 0000000000002000 c000000062ebc760\n[    2.553170] NIP [c0000000007eef3c] free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[    2.553185] LR [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0\n[    2.553199] Call Trace:\n[    2.553207] [c0000000622e7650] [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 (unreliable)\n[    2.553229] [c0000000622e7750] [c0000000007f40b4] free_pgd_range+0x284/0x3b0\n[    2.553248] [c0000000622e7800] [c0000000007f4630] free_pgtables+0x450/0x570\n[    2.553274] [c0000000622e78e0] [c0000000008161c0] exit_mmap+0x250/0x650\n[    2.553292] [c0000000622e7a30] [c0000000001b95b8] __mmput+0x98/0x290\n[    2.558344] [c0000000622e7a80] [c0000000001d1018] exit_mm+0x118/0x1b0\n[    2.558361] [c0000000622e7ac0] [c0000000001d141c] do_exit+0x2ec/0x870\n[    2.558376] [c0000000622e7b60] [c0000000001d1ca8] do_group_exit+0x88/0x150\n[    2.558391] [c0000000622e7bb0] [c0000000001d1db8] sys_exit_group+0x48/0x50\n[    2.558407] [c0000000622e7be0] [c00000000003d810] system_call_exception+0x1e0/0x4c0\n[    2.558423] [c0000000622e7e50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n(...)\n[    2.558892] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[    2.559022] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:000000002267cc9e type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1\n[    2.559037] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -6144\n\nAqu\u00ed el proceso modprobe termin\u00f3 con una mm_struct --TRUNCADO--"
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  "id": "CVE-2025-39776",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T21:10:00.160",
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CVE-2025-39776 (GCVE-0-2025-39776)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-11 16:56 – Updated: 2026-10-15 22:02

Title

mm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args()

Summary

Severity

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:54 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bf57a0709cd7c908…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47d2a149611b8a94d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63962ff932ef35992…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a9f2e5c49f05e3e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/561171db3b3eb759b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dde30854bddfb5d69…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.149 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.103 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.44 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
Siemens	SIMATIC CN 4100	Affected: 0 , < V5.0 (custom)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Vulnerability timeline

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