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Medium 5.5Published Oct 1, 2025

CVE-2025-39899mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE With CONFIG_HIGHPTE on 32-bit ARM, move_pages_pte() maps PTE pages using kmap_local_page(), which requires unmapping in Last-In-First-Out order. The current code maps dst_pte first, then src_pte, but unmaps them in the same order (dst_pte, src_pte), violating the LIFO requirement. This causes the warning in kunmap_local_indexed(): WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 604 at mm/highmem.c:622 kunmap_local_indexed+0x178/0x17c addr \!= __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx) Fix this by reversing the unmap order to respect LIFO ordering. This issue follows the same pattern as similar fixes: - commit eca6828403b8 ("crypto: skcipher - fix mismatch between mapping and unmapping order") - commit 8cf57c6df818 ("nilfs2: eliminate staggered calls to kunmap in nilfs_rename") Both of which addressed the same fundamental requirement that kmap_local operations must follow LIFO ordering.

CVSS
5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 before b051f707018967ea8f697d790a1ed8c443f63812; from adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 before bd1ee62759d0bd4d6b909731c076c230ac89d61e; from adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 before 9614d8bee66387501f48718fa306e17f2aa3f2f3
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 6.8 before 6.12.46; from 6.13 before 6.16.6; 6.17; 6.17; 6.17; 6.17
NVD

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