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CVE-2025-21949: LoongArch: Set hugetlb mmap base address aligned with pmd size

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.18% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 242b34f48a377afe4b285b472bd0f17744fca8e8, 3109d5ff484b7bc7b955f166974c6776d91f247b.
  • Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 7.8, NVD 5.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 242b34f48a377afe4b285b472bd0f17744fca8e8, 3109d5ff484b7bc7b955f166974c6776d91f247b or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Set hugetlb mmap base address aligned with pmd size With ltp test case "testcases/bin/hugefork02", there is a dmesg error report message such as: kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:5550! Oops - BUG[#1]: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1517 Comm: hugefork02 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #241 Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022 pc 90000000004eaf1c ra 9000000000485538 tp 900000010edbc000 sp 900000010edbf940 a0 900000010edbfb00 a1 9000000108d20280 a2 00007fffe9474000 a3 00007ffff3474000 a4 0000000000000000 a5 0000000000000003 a6 00000000003cadd3 a7 0000000000000000 t0 0000000001ffffff t1 0000000001474000 t2 900000010ecd7900 t3 00007fffe9474000 t4 00007fffe9474000 t5 0000000000000040 t6 900000010edbfb00 t7 0000000000000001 t8 0000000000000005 u0 90000000004849d0 s9 900000010edbfa00 s0 9000000108d20280 s1 00007fffe9474000 s2 0000000002000000 s3 9000000108d20280 s4 9000000002b38b10 s5 900000010edbfb00 s6 00007ffff3474000 s7 0000000000000406 s8 900000010edbfa08 ra: 9000000000485538 unmap_vmas+0x130/0x218 ERA: 90000000004eaf1c __unmap_hugepage_range+0x6f4/0x7d0 PRMD: 00000004 (PPLV0 +PIE -PWE) EUEN: 00000007 (+FPE +SXE +ASXE -BTE) ECFG: 00071c1d (LIE=0,2-4,10-12 VS=7) ESTAT: 000c0000 [BRK] (IS= ECode=12 EsubCode=0) PRID: 0014c010 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-3A5000) Process hugefork02 (pid: 1517, threadinfo=00000000a670eaf4, task=000000007a95fc64) Call Trace: [<90000000004eaf1c>] __unmap_hugepage_range+0x6f4/0x7d0 [<9000000000485534>] unmap_vmas+0x12c/0x218 [<9000000000494068>] exit_mmap+0xe0/0x308 [<900000000025fdc4>] mmput+0x74/0x180 [<900000000026a284>] do_exit+0x294/0x898 [<900000000026aa30>] do_group_exit+0x30/0x98 [<900000000027bed4>] get_signal+0x83c/0x868 [<90000000002457b4>] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x54/0xfa0 [<90000000015795e8>] irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xb8/0x138 [<90000000002572d0>] tlb_do_page_fault_1+0x114/0x1b4 The problem is that base address allocated from hugetlbfs is not aligned with pmd size. Here add a checking for hugetlbfs and align base address with pmd size. After this patch the test case "testcases/bin/hugefork02" passes to run. This is similar to the commit 7f24cbc9c4d42db8a3c8484d1 ("mm/mmap: teach generic_get_unmapped_area{_topdown} to handle hugetlb mappings").

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 7th percentile
CWE
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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.5
CNA · Linux
7.8
2.3 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel5.19 and later · before 6.13.7
  • linux linux kernel6.14

Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 5.19affected
    • fa96b57c149061f71a70bd6582d995f6424fbbf4 and later · before 242b34f48a377afe4b285b472bd0f17744fca8e8affected · git
    • fa96b57c149061f71a70bd6582d995f6424fbbf4 and later · before 3109d5ff484b7bc7b955f166974c6776d91f247baffected · git
    • before 5.19not affected · semver
    • 6.13.7 and later · up to and including 6.13.*not affected · semver
    • 6.14 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxfrom 0—
Debian:14linuxbefore 6.16.3-16.16.3-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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  • Later →CVE-2025-21950Apr 1, 2025 · drivers: virt: acrn: hsm: Use kzalloc to avoid info leak in pmcmd_ioctl
    28Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux242b34f48a377afe4b285b472bd0f17744fca8e8Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux3109d5ff484b7bc7b955f166974c6776d91f247bVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.16.3-1 · Debian:14Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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Variant candidates

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No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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