{"cve":"CVE-2025-39775","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-11T17:15:43.320","modified":"2026-10-21T13:18:13.933","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mremap: fix WARN with uffd that has remap events disabled\n\nRegistering userfaultd on a VMA that spans at least one PMD and then\nmremap()'ing that VMA can trigger a WARN when recovering from a failed\npage table move due to a page table allocation error.\n\nThe code ends up doing the right thing (recurse, avoiding moving actual\npage tables), but triggering that WARN is unpleasant:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 6133 at mm/mremap.c:357 move_normal_pmd mm/mremap.c:357 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 6133 at mm/mremap.c:357 move_pgt_entry mm/mremap.c:595 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 6133 at mm/mremap.c:357 move_page_tables+0x3832/0x44a0 mm/mremap.c:852\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6133 Comm: syz.0.19 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00004-g53e760d89498 #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:move_normal_pmd mm/mremap.c:357 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:move_pgt_entry mm/mremap.c:595 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:move_page_tables+0x3832/0x44a0 mm/mremap.c:852\nCode: ...\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900037a76d8 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000032930007 RCX: ffffffff820c6645\nRDX: ffff88802e56a440 RSI: ffffffff820c7201 RDI: 0000000000000007\nRBP: ffff888037728fc0 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000032930007 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffffc900037a79a8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: dffffc0000000000\nFS:  000055556316a500(0000) GS:ffff8880d68bc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000001b30863fff CR3: 0000000050171000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n copy_vma_and_data+0x468/0x790 mm/mremap.c:1215\n move_vma+0x548/0x1780 mm/mremap.c:1282\n mremap_to+0x1b7/0x450 mm/mremap.c:1406\n do_mremap+0xfad/0x1f80 mm/mremap.c:1921\n __do_sys_mremap+0x119/0x170 mm/mremap.c:1977\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f00d0b8ebe9\nCode: ...\nRSP: 002b:00007ffe5ea5ee98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000019\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f00d0db5fa0 RCX: 00007f00d0b8ebe9\nRDX: 0000000000400000 RSI: 0000000000c00000 RDI: 0000200000000000\nRBP: 00007ffe5ea5eef0 R08: 0000200000c00000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002\nR13: 00007f00d0db5fa0 R14: 00007f00d0db5fa0 R15: 0000000000000005\n </TASK>\n\nThe underlying issue is that we recurse during the original page table\nmove, but not during the recovery move.\n\nFix it by checking for both VMAs and performing the check before the\npmd_none() sanity check.\n\nAdd a new helper where we perform+document that check for the PMD and PUD\nlevel.\n\nThanks to Harry for bisecting.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c15b4cd3a97aea013bdb18d9a55ca0384fbb8d4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/772e5b4a5e8360743645b9a466842d16092c4f94","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d70ca21f7bff162a5afae1ddd6f4107adf05ae23"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-22T16:41:11.231219466+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-39775","score":0.00187,"percentile":0.08236,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}