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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37859" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-09T06:42:06.596Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:58:26.300Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37859" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37859.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37859" title: "page_pool: avoid infinite loop to schedule delayed worker" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npage_pool: avoid infinite loop to schedule delayed worker\n\nWe noticed the kworker in page_pool_release_retry() was waken\nup repeatedly and infinitely in production because of the\nbuggy driver causing the inflight less than 0 and warning\nus in page_pool_inflight()[1].\n\nSince the inflight value goes negative, it means we should\nnot expect the whole page_pool to get back to work normally.\n\nThis patch mitigates the adverse effect by not rescheduling\nthe kworker when detecting the inflight negative in\npage_pool_release_retry().\n\n[1]\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] Negative(-51446) inflight packet-pages\n...\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] Call Trace:\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] page_pool_release_retry+0x23/0x70\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] process_one_work+0x1b1/0x370\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] worker_thread+0x37/0x3a0\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] kthread+0x11a/0x140\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ? process_one_work+0x370/0x370\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x40/0x40\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40\n[Mon Feb 10 20:36:11 2025] ---[ end trace ebffe800f33e7e34 ]---\nNote: before this patch, the above calltrace would flood the\ndmesg due to repeated reschedule of release_dw kworker." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"05f646cb2174d1a4e032b60b99097f5c4b522616","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3c7c57017ce1d4b2d3788c1fc59e7e39026e158"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f71db4fb82deb889e0bac4a51b34daea7d506a3"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91522aba56e9fcdf64da25ffef9b27f8fad48e0f"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90e089a64504982f8d62f223027cb9f903781f78"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95f17738b86fd198924d874a5639bcdc49c7e5b8"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7204335d1991c23fc615ab76f31f175748a578e1"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e74e5aa33228c5e2cb4fc80ad103541a7b7805ec"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"738d1812ec2e395e953258aea912ddd867d11a13"},{"version":"c3f812cea0d7006469d1cf33a4a9f0a12bb4b3a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43130d02baa137033c25297aaae95fd0edc41654"},{"version":"bf22306d92ca59c59dc4aa3bab14768948193d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.293"},{"version":"5.3.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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