Answer in brief
CVE-2025-40199 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=4f51fb0d257ff4d406ec27966902de075e3b118e <15b8a5b4cdc16e9a8bb2a548e12a0fd92997605a || >=ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 <f62934cea32c8f7b11b747975d69bf5afe4264cf || >=ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 <95920c2ed02bde551ab654e9749c2ca7bc3100e0 || c30ae60f41f9edd6e1b5cad41cf28ce04dae39e4 || >=6.12.34 <6.12.54 || >=6.15.3 <6.16 | 15b8a5b4cdc16e9a8bb2a548e12a0fd92997605a, f62934cea32c8f7b11b747975d69bf5afe4264cf, 95920c2ed02bde551ab654e9749c2ca7bc3100e0, 6.12.54, 6.16 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.16 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Nov 12, 2025
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 19, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 5, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches Helge reported that the introduction of PP_MAGIC_MASK let to crashes on boot on his 32-bit parisc machine. The cause of this is the mask is set too wide, so the page_pool_page_is_pp() incurs false positives which crashes the machine. Just disabling the check in page_pool_is_pp() will lead to the page_pool code itself malfunctioning; so instead of doing this, this patch changes the define for PP_DMA_INDEX_BITS to avoid mistaking arbitrary kernel pointers for page_pool-tagged pages. The fix relies on the kernel pointers that alias with the pp_magic field always being above PAGE_OFFSET. With this assumption, we can use the lowest bit of the value of PAGE_OFFSET as the upper bound of the PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK, which should avoid the false positives. Because we cannot rely on PAGE_OFFSET always being a compile-time constant, nor on it always being >0, we fall back to disabling the dma_index storage when there are not enough bits available. This leaves us in the situation we were in before the patch in the Fixes tag, but only on a subset of architecture configurations. This seems to be the best we can do until the transition to page types in complete for page_pool pages. v2: - Make sure there's at least 8 bits available and that the PAGE_OFFSET bit calculation doesn't wrap
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