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FKIE_CVE-2025-40058

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-28 12:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:24

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU atomically updating the dirty bit in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging- structure memory must be coherent between the IOMMU and the CPU. In another word, if the iommu page walk is incoherent, dirty page tracking doesn't work. The Intel VT-d specification, Section 3.10 "Snoop Behavior" states: "Remapping hardware encountering the need to atomically update A/EA/D bits in a paging-structure entry that is not snooped will result in a non- recoverable fault." To prevent an IOMMU from being incorrectly configured for dirty page tracking when it is operating in an incoherent mode, mark SSADS as supported only when both ecap_slads and ecap_smpwc are supported.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57f55048e564dedd8a4546d018e29d6bbfff0a7e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d096ce0e87bdc361f0b25d7943543bc53aa0b9e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebe16d245a00626bb87163862a1b07daf5475a3e

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-40058 (GCVE-0-2025-40058)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:07

Title

iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6618 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebe16d245a00626bb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d096ce0e87bdc361…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57f55048e564dedd8…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < ebe16d245a00626bb87163862a1b07daf5475a3e (git) Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < 8d096ce0e87bdc361f0b25d7943543bc53aa0b9e (git) Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < 57f55048e564dedd8a4546d018e29d6bbfff0a7e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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