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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39961" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-09T12:13:22.029Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:34.065Z" 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-2025-39961" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39961.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39961" title: "iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level\n\nThe AMD IOMMU host page table implementation supports dynamic page table levels\n(up to 6 levels), starting with a 3-level configuration that expands based on\nIOVA address. The kernel maintains a root pointer and current page table level\nto enable proper page table walks in alloc_pte()/fetch_pte() operations.\n\nThe IOMMU IOVA allocator initially starts with 32-bit address and onces its\nexhuasted it switches to 64-bit address (max address is determined based\non IOMMU and device DMA capability). To support larger IOVA, AMD IOMMU\ndriver increases page table level.\n\nBut in unmap path (iommu_v1_unmap_pages()), fetch_pte() reads\npgtable-\u003e[root/mode] without lock. So its possible that in exteme corner case,\nwhen increase_address_space() is updating pgtable-\u003e[root/mode], fetch_pte()\nreads wrong page table level (pgtable-\u003emode). It does compare the value with\nlevel encoded in page table and returns NULL. This will result is\niommu_unmap ops to fail and upper layer may retry/log WARN_ON.\n\nCPU 0 CPU 1\n------ ------\nmap pages unmap pages\nalloc_pte() -\u003e increase_address_space() iommu_v1_unmap_pages() -\u003e fetch_pte()\n pgtable-\u003eroot = pte (new root value)\n READ pgtable-\u003e[mode/root]\n\t\t\t\t\t Reads new root, old mode\n Updates mode (pgtable-\u003emode += 1)\n\nSince Page table level updates are infrequent and already synchronized with a\nspinlock, implement seqcount to enable lock-free read operations on the read path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"754265bcab78a9014f0f99cd35e0d610fcd7dfa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"075abf0b1a958acfbea2435003d228e738e90346"},{"version":"754265bcab78a9014f0f99cd35e0d610fcd7dfa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd92c8ab336c3a633d46e6f35ebcd3509ae7db3b"},{"version":"754265bcab78a9014f0f99cd35e0d610fcd7dfa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d462bdecb7d9c32934dab44aaeb7ea7d73a27a2"},{"version":"754265bcab78a9014f0f99cd35e0d610fcd7dfa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e56310b40fd2e7e0b9493da9ff488af145bdd0c"},{"version":"6fb92f18555a7b8e085267d513612dc0ff9a5360","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b15bf74405faa1a65025eb8a6eb337e140e5250a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0d50f7b1e8c80a8c20db5049e269468c059b0378","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"785ca708a908b9c596ede852470ba28b8dc3e40b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.9.194","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.146","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.75","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.2.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.6.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.9","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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