CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39845
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/mm/64: define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings()
Define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() to ensure
page tables are properly synchronized when calling p*d_populate_kernel().
For 5-level paging, synchronization is performed via
pgd_populate_kernel(). In 4-level paging, pgd_populate() is a no-op, so
synchronization is instead performed at the P4D level via
p4d_populate_kernel().
This fixes intermittent boot failures on systems using 4-level paging and
a large amount of persistent memory:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe70000000034
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__init_single_page+0x9/0x6d
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__init_zone_device_page+0x17/0x5d
memmap_init_zone_device+0x154/0x1bb
pagemap_range+0x2e0/0x40f
memremap_pages+0x10b/0x2f0
devm_memremap_pages+0x1e/0x60
dev_dax_probe+0xce/0x2ec [device_dax]
dax_bus_probe+0x6d/0xc9
[... snip ...]
</TASK>
It also fixes a crash in vmemmap_set_pmd() caused by accessing vmemmap
before sync_global_pgds() [1]:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffeb3ff1200000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Tainted: [W]=WARN
RIP: 0010:vmemmap_set_pmd+0xff/0x230
<TASK>
vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0x176/0x180
vmemmap_populate+0x34/0x80
__populate_section_memmap+0x41/0x90
sparse_add_section+0x121/0x3e0
__add_pages+0xba/0x150
add_pages+0x1d/0x70
memremap_pages+0x3dc/0x810
devm_memremap_pages+0x1c/0x60
xe_devm_add+0x8b/0x100 [xe]
xe_tile_init_noalloc+0x6a/0x70 [xe]
xe_device_probe+0x48c/0x740 [xe]
[... snip ...]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.192)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.151)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.105)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.17
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26ff568f390a531d1bd792e49f1a401849921960 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f761d40ee95d2624f839c90ebeef2d5c55007f5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6659d027998083fbb6d42a165b0c90dc2e8ba989 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bf9473727569e8283c1e2445c7ac42cf4fc9fa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/744ff519c72de31344a627eaf9b24e9595aae554 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f4051dd3388edd30e9a6077c05c486aa31e0d4 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html cert-portal.siemens.com