CVE-2025-39754: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration smaps_hugetlb_range() handles the pte without holdling ptl, and may be concurrenct with migration, leaing to BUG_ON in pfn_swap_entry_to_page(). The race is as follows. smaps_hugetlb_range migrate_pages huge_ptep_get remove_migration_ptes folio_unlock pfn_swap_entry_folio BUG_ON To fix it, hold ptl lock in smaps_hugetlb_range().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.4, before 6.12.43 (fixed in 6.12.43); from 6.13, before 6.15.11 (fixed in 6.15.11); from 6.16, before 6.16.2 (fixed in 6.16.2); version 6.17 only

Published 2025-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.