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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37922" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-20T15:21:51.062Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:17:42.270Z" 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-2025-37922" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37922.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37922" title: "book3s64/radix : Align section vmemmap start address to PAGE_SIZE" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbook3s64/radix : Align section vmemmap start address to PAGE_SIZE\n\nA vmemmap altmap is a device-provided region used to provide\nbacking storage for struct pages. For each namespace, the altmap\nshould belong to that same namespace. If the namespaces are\ncreated unaligned, there is a chance that the section vmemmap\nstart address could also be unaligned. If the section vmemmap\nstart address is unaligned, the altmap page allocated from the\ncurrent namespace might be used by the previous namespace also.\nDuring the free operation, since the altmap is shared between two\nnamespaces, the previous namespace may detect that the page does\nnot belong to its altmap and incorrectly assume that the page is a\nnormal page. It then attempts to free the normal page, which leads\nto a kernel crash.\n\nKernel attempted to read user page (18) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)\nBUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000018\nFaulting instruction address: 0xc000000000530c7c\nOops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\nLE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries\nCPU: 32 PID: 2104 Comm: ndctl Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W\nNIP: c000000000530c7c LR: c000000000530e00 CTR: 0000000000007ffe\nREGS: c000000015e57040 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G W\nMSR: 800000000280b033 \u003cSF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e CR: 84482404\nCFAR: c000000000530dfc DAR: 0000000000000018 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0\nGPR00: c000000000530e00 c000000015e572e0 c000000002c5cb00 c00c000101008040\nGPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000007 0000000000000001 000000000000001f\nGPR08: 0000000000000005 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 0000000000002000\nGPR12: c0000000001d2fb0 c0000060de6b0080 0000000000000000 c0000060dbf90020\nGPR16: c00c000101008000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 c000000125b20f00\nGPR20: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff c00c000101007fff\nGPR24: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\nGPR28: 0000000004040201 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 c00c000101008040\nNIP [c000000000530c7c] get_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x7c/0xd0\nLR [c000000000530e00] free_unref_page_prepare+0x130/0x4f0\nCall Trace:\nfree_unref_page+0x50/0x1e0\nfree_reserved_page+0x40/0x68\nfree_vmemmap_pages+0x98/0xe0\nremove_pte_table+0x164/0x1e8\nremove_pmd_table+0x204/0x2c8\nremove_pud_table+0x1c4/0x288\nremove_pagetable+0x1c8/0x310\nvmemmap_free+0x24/0x50\nsection_deactivate+0x28c/0x2a0\n__remove_pages+0x84/0x110\narch_remove_memory+0x38/0x60\nmemunmap_pages+0x18c/0x3d0\ndevm_action_release+0x30/0x50\nrelease_nodes+0x68/0x140\ndevres_release_group+0x100/0x190\ndax_pmem_compat_release+0x44/0x80 [dax_pmem_compat]\ndevice_for_each_child+0x8c/0x100\n[dax_pmem_compat_remove+0x2c/0x50 [dax_pmem_compat]\nnvdimm_bus_remove+0x78/0x140 [libnvdimm]\ndevice_remove+0x70/0xd0\n\nAnother issue is that if there is no altmap, a PMD-sized vmemmap\npage will be allocated from RAM, regardless of the alignment of\nthe section start address. If the section start address is not\naligned to the PMD size, a VM_BUG_ON will be triggered when\nsetting the PMD-sized page to page table.\n\nIn this patch, we are aligning the section vmemmap start address\nto PAGE_SIZE. After alignment, the start address will not be\npart of the current namespace, and a normal page will be allocated\nfor the vmemmap mapping of the current section. For the remaining\nsections, altmaps will be allocated. During the free operation,\nthe normal page will be correctly freed.\n\nIn the same way, a PMD_SIZE vmemmap page will be allocated only if\nthe section start address is PMD_SIZE-aligned; otherwise, it will\nfall back to a PAGE-sized vmemmap allocation.\n\nWithout this patch\n==================\nNS1 start NS2 start\n _________________________________________________________\n| NS1 | NS2 |\n ---------------------------------------------------------\n| Altmap| Altmap | .....|Altmap| Altmap | ...........\n| NS1 | NS1 \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"368a0590d954a659b16ab945328ada0cc10f93a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a8d4d7072d4df108479b1adc4b0840e96f6f61d"},{"version":"368a0590d954a659b16ab945328ada0cc10f93a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f5476d80f2cb364701cd1fa138a14b241ca99e9"},{"version":"368a0590d954a659b16ab945328ada0cc10f93a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"400be767deaf31a073c6d14c5d151ae5ac2a60e2"},{"version":"368a0590d954a659b16ab945328ada0cc10f93a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cf7e13fecbab0894f6986fc6986ab2eba8de52e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","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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