Vulnerability · Published Sep 5, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-39700mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 6% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 94.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes damon_migrate_pages() tries migration even if the target node is invalid. If users mistakenly make such invalid requests via DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} action, the below kernel BUG can happen. [ 7831.883495] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001f48 [ 7831.884160] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 7831.884681] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 7831.885203] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 7831.885468] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 7831.885852] CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 94202 Comm: kdamond.0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-mm-new-damon+ #93 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 7831.886913] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.el9 04/01/2014 [ 7831.887777] RIP: 0010:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof (include/linux/mmzone.h:1724 include/linux/mmzone.h:1750 mm/page_alloc.c:4936 mm/page_alloc.c:5137) [...] [ 7831.895953] Call Trace: [ 7831.896195] <TASK> [ 7831.896397] __folio_alloc_noprof (mm/page_alloc.c:5183 mm/page_alloc.c:5192) [ 7831.896787] migrate_pages_batch (mm/migrate.c:1189 mm/migrate.c:1851) [ 7831.897228] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137) [ 7831.897735] migrate_pages (mm/migrate.c:2078) [ 7831.898141] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137) [ 7831.898664] damon_migrate_folio_list (mm/damon/ops-common.c:321 mm/damon/ops-common.c:354) [ 7831.899140] damon_migrate_pages (mm/damon/ops-common.c:405) [...] Add a target node validity check in damon_migrate_pages(). The validity check is stolen from that of do_pages_move(), which is being used for the move_pages() system call.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.48-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39700
Debian:13linux6.12.48-1DSA-6008-1
Debian:14linux6.16.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux b51820ebea656be3b48bb16dcdc5ad3f203c4fd7 – before 7c303fa1f311aadc17fa82b7bbf776412adf45deb51820ebea656be3b48bb16dcdc5ad3f203c4fd7 – before 9d0c2d15aff96746f99a7c97221bb8ce5b62db19b51820ebea656be3b48bb16dcdc5ad3f203c4fd7 – before 7e6c3130690a01076efdf45aa02ba5d5c16849a0
Linux Linux 6.11

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