# CVE-2025-39700: mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes

> A local attacker with root privileges can trigger a kernel crash by requesting page migration to an invalid memory node in DAMON.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 5 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-39700, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39700, GHSA-f33w-g2mp-f2w2, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-39700, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39700

## What is CVE-2025-39700?

CVE-2025-39700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes

damon_migrate_pages() tries migration even if the target node is invalid. 
If users mistakenly make such invalid requests via
DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} action, the below kernel BUG can happen.

    [ 7831.883495] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001f48
    [ 7831.884160] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    [ 7831.884681] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    [ 7831.885203] PGD 0 P4D 0
    [ 7831.885468] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
    [ 7831.885852] CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 94202 Comm: kdamond.0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-mm-new-damon+ #93 PREEMPT(voluntary)
    [ 7831.886913] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.el9 04/01/2014
    [ 7831.887777] RIP: 0010:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof (include/linux/mmzone.h:1724 include/linux/mmzone.h:1750 mm/page_alloc.c:4936 mm/page_alloc.c:5137)
    [...]
    [ 7831.895953] Call Trace:
    [ 7831.896195]  <TASK>
    [ 7831.896397] __folio_alloc_noprof (mm/page_alloc.c:5183 mm/page_alloc.c:5192)
    [ 7831.896787] migrate_pages_batch (mm/migrate.c:1189 mm/migrate.c:1851)
    [ 7831.897228] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137)
    [ 7831.897735] migrate_pages (mm/migrate.c:2078)
    [ 7831.898141] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137)
    [ 7831.898664] damon_migrate_folio_list (mm/damon/ops-common.c:321 mm/damon/ops-common.c:354)
    [ 7831.899140] damon_migrate_pages (mm/damon/ops-common.c:405)
    [...]

Add a target node validity check in damon_migrate_pages().  The validity
check is stolen from that of do_pages_move(), which is being used for the
move_pages() system call.

Weakness: CWE-1284 (Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-39700?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-39700?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-39700 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39700 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39700 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-39700 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39700 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39700/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39700/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39700
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39700
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-39700

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39700/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.