CVE-2025-39961 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-39961

iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level The AMD IOMMU host page table implementation supports dynamic page table levels (up to 6 levels), starting with a 3-level configuration that expands based on IOVA address. The kernel maintains a root pointer and current page table level to enable proper page table walks in alloc_pte()/fetch_pte() operations. The IOMMU IOVA allocator initially starts with 32-bit address and onces its exhuasted it switches to 64-bit address (max address is determined based on IOMMU and device DMA capability). To support larger IOVA, AMD IOMMU driver increases page table level. But in unmap path (iommu_v1_unmap_pages()), fetch_pte() reads pgtable->[root/mode] without lock. So its possible that in exteme corner case, when increase_address_space() is updating pgtable->[root/mode], fetch_pte() reads wrong page table level (pgtable->mode). It does compare the value with level encoded in page table and returns NULL. This will result is iommu_unmap ops to fail and upper layer may retry/log WARN_ON. CPU 0 CPU 1 ------ ------ map pages unmap pages alloc_pte() -> increase_address_space() iommu_v1_unmap_pages() -> fetch_pte() pgtable->root = pte (new root value) READ pgtable->[mode/root] Reads new root, old mode Updates mode (pgtable->mode += 1) Since Page table level updates are infrequent and already synchronized with a spinlock, implement seqcount to enable lock-free read operations on the read path.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
754265bcab78a9014f0f99cd35e0d610fcd7dfa7, 6fb92f18555a7b8e085267d513612dc0ff9a5360, b15bf74405faa1a65025eb8a6eb337e140e5250a, 0d50f7b1e8c80a8c20db5049e269468c059b0378, 785ca708a908b9c596ede852470ba28b8dc3e40b, 4.9.194, 4.14.146, 4.19.75, 5.2.17, 5.3, 0, 6.6.108, 6.12.49, 6.16.9, 6.17

Timeline

Official Publish: October 9th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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