CVE-2025-39725NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateDec 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list In shrink_folio_list(), the hwpoisoned folio may be large folio, which can't be handled by unmap_poisoned_folio(). For THP, try_to_unmap_one() must be passed with TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD to split huge PMD first and then retry. Without TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger null-ptr deref of pvmw.pte. Even we passed TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE du

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.12.266.12.41+2
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.12.41-1+1
CVEListV5linux/linux1c9798bf8145a92abf45aa9d38a6406d9eb8bdf0656eaddbc952e1baae2f69281c22debe22140312+4
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.16.3-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

8
OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.14 vulnerabilities2025-12-15
OSV
linux-gcp-6.14, linux-raspi vulnerabilities2025-12-04
OSV
linux-aws-6.14, linux-oracle-6.14 vulnerabilities2025-11-26
OSV
linux-oem-6.14 vulnerabilities2025-11-21
OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities2025-11-21

📋Vendor Advisories

7
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2025-12-15
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2025-12-04
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2025-11-26
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities2025-11-21
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities2025-11-21
CVE-2025-39725 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux | cvebase