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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39736" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:52:11.772Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:06:38.396Z" 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-2025-39736" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39736.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39736" title: "mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock\n\nWhen netpoll is enabled, calling pr_warn_once() while holding\nkmemleak_lock in mem_pool_alloc() can cause a deadlock due to lock\ninversion with the netconsole subsystem. This occurs because\npr_warn_once() may trigger netpoll, which eventually leads to\n__alloc_skb() and back into kmemleak code, attempting to reacquire\nkmemleak_lock.\n\nThis is the path for the deadlock.\n\nmem_pool_alloc()\n -\u003e raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);\n -\u003e pr_warn_once()\n -\u003e netconsole subsystem\n\t -\u003e netpoll\n\t -\u003e __alloc_skb\n\t\t -\u003e __create_object\n\t\t -\u003e raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);\n\nFix this by setting a flag and issuing the pr_warn_once() after\nkmemleak_lock is released." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7b6ea0ede687e7460e593c5ea478f50aa41682a"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b0151e1d468eb2667c37b7af99b3c075072d334"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f249d32bb54876b4b6c3ae071af8ddca77af390b"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62879faa8efe8d8a9c7bf7606ee9c068012d7dac"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1da95d3d4b7b1d380ebd87b71a61e7e6aed3265d"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0854de00ce2ee27edf39037e7836ad580eb3350"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08f70be5e406ce47c822f2dd11c1170ca259605b"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a181b228b37a6a5625dad2bb4265bb7abb673e9f"},{"version":"c5665868183fec689dbab9fb8505188b2c4f0757","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47b0f6d8f0d2be4d311a49e13d2fd5f152f492b2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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