CVE-2025-39899

CVE-2025-39899

Medium · published October 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE on 32-bit ARM, move_pages_pte() maps PTE pages using

kmap_local_page(), which requires unmapping in Last-In-First-Out order.

The current code maps dst_pte first, then src_pte, but unmaps them in the

same order (dst_pte, src_pte), violating the LIFO requirement. This

causes the warning in kunmap_local_indexed():

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 604 at mm/highmem.c:622 kunmap_local_indexed+0x178/0x17c

addr \!= __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx)

Fix this by reversing the unmap order to respect LIFO ordering.

This issue follows the same pattern as similar fixes:

- commit eca6828403b8 ("crypto: skcipher - fix mismatch between mapping and unmapping order")

- commit 8cf57c6df818 ("nilfs2: eliminate staggered calls to kunmap in nilfs_rename")

Both of which addressed the same fundamental requirement that kmap_local

operations must follow LIFO ordering.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00146 · 3.6th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T12:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.12.466.12.46
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.66.16.6
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 07:42Z
    mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
    cvelistv5