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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39776" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:56:28.936Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:31.643Z" 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-2025-39776" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39776.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39776" title: "mm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args()\n\nThe mm/debug_vm_pagetable test allocates manually page table entries for\nthe tests it runs, using also its manually allocated mm_struct. That in\nitself is ok, but when it exits, at destroy_args() it fails to clear those\nentries with the *_clear functions.\n\nThe problem is that leaves stale entries. If another process allocates an\nmm_struct with a pgd at the same address, it may end up running into the\nstale entry. This is happening in practice on a debug kernel with\nCONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y, for example this is the output with some extra\ndebugging I added (it prints a warning trace if pgtables_bytes goes\nnegative, in addition to the warning at check_mm() function):\n\n[ 2.539353] debug_vm_pgtable: [get_random_vaddr ]: random_vaddr is 0x7ea247140000\n[ 2.539366] kmem_cache info\n[ 2.539374] kmem_cachep 0x000000002ce82385 - freelist 0x0000000000000000 - offset 0x508\n[ 2.539447] debug_vm_pgtable: [init_args ]: args-\u003emm is 0x000000002267cc9e\n(...)\n[ 2.552800] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 116 at include/linux/mm.h:2841 free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[ 2.552816] Modules linked in:\n[ 2.552843] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug #1 VOLUNTARY\n[ 2.552859] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW910.00 (VL910_062) hv:phyp pSeries\n[ 2.552872] NIP: c0000000007eef3c LR: c0000000007eef30 CTR: c0000000003d8c90\n[ 2.552885] REGS: c0000000622e73b0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug)\n[ 2.552899] MSR: 800000000282b033 \u003cSF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e CR: 24002822 XER: 0000000a\n[ 2.552954] CFAR: c0000000008f03f0 IRQMASK: 0\n[ 2.552954] GPR00: c0000000007eef30 c0000000622e7650 c000000002b1ac00 0000000000000001\n[ 2.552954] GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000007eef30 ffffffffffffffff\n[ 2.552954] GPR08: 00000000ffff00f5 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 0000000000004000\n[ 2.552954] GPR12: 00000003fa440000 c000000017ffa300 c0000000051d9f80 ffffffffffffffdb\n[ 2.552954] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 000000000000000a 60000000000000e0\n[ 2.552954] GPR20: 4080000000000000 c0000000113af038 00007fffcf130000 0000700000000000\n[ 2.552954] GPR24: c000000062a6a000 0000000000000001 8000000062a68000 0000000000000001\n[ 2.552954] GPR28: 000000000000000a c000000062ebc600 0000000000002000 c000000062ebc760\n[ 2.553170] NIP [c0000000007eef3c] free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0\n[ 2.553185] LR [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0\n[ 2.553199] Call Trace:\n[ 2.553207] [c0000000622e7650] [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 (unreliable)\n[ 2.553229] [c0000000622e7750] [c0000000007f40b4] free_pgd_range+0x284/0x3b0\n[ 2.553248] [c0000000622e7800] [c0000000007f4630] free_pgtables+0x450/0x570\n[ 2.553274] [c0000000622e78e0] [c0000000008161c0] exit_mmap+0x250/0x650\n[ 2.553292] [c0000000622e7a30] [c0000000001b95b8] __mmput+0x98/0x290\n[ 2.558344] [c0000000622e7a80] [c0000000001d1018] exit_mm+0x118/0x1b0\n[ 2.558361] [c0000000622e7ac0] [c0000000001d141c] do_exit+0x2ec/0x870\n[ 2.558376] [c0000000622e7b60] [c0000000001d1ca8] do_group_exit+0x88/0x150\n[ 2.558391] [c0000000622e7bb0] [c0000000001d1db8] sys_exit_group+0x48/0x50\n[ 2.558407] [c0000000622e7be0] [c00000000003d810] system_call_exception+0x1e0/0x4c0\n[ 2.558423] [c0000000622e7e50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n(...)\n[ 2.558892] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[ 2.559022] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:000000002267cc9e type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1\n[ 2.559037] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -6144\n\nHere the modprobe process ended up with an allocated mm_struct from the\nmm_struct slab that was used before by the debug_vm_pgtable test. That is\nnot a problem, since the mm_stru\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7bf57a0709cd7c9088cea8de023d6f4fbf2518b0"},{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d2a149611b8a94d24add9868c442a4af278658"},{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"63962ff932ef359925b94be2a88df6b4fd4fed0a"},{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61a9f2e5c49f05e3ea2c16674540a075a1b4be6f"},{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"561171db3b3eb759ba3f284dba7a76f4476ade03"},{"version":"3c9b84f044a9e54cf56d1b2c9b80a2d2ce56d70a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dde30854bddfb5d69f30022b53c5955a41088b33"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"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":"6.12.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.4","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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