{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40218 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-40218 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 4 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40218 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-40218 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 4 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40218 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40218/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-40218","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40218/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-40218","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-40218","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40218","GHSA-349m-qg9r-c9hf","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40218","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40218"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can cause a system soft lockup and denial of service by triggering an infinite loop in the Linux kernel DAMON module during CPU hotplugging.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success\n\nDAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls\npte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function.  This\nis for reading and writing page table accessed bits.  If\npte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk\ncallback function with ACTION_AGAIN.\n\npte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd\nmigration entry, though.  Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk\nif the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. \nThis indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were\nrunning in parallel.\n\nAvoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk.  DAMON\nis promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages\nis no problem.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success","id":"CVE-2025-40218","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug","id":"CVE-2025-40219"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"pidfs: validate extensible ioctls","id":"CVE-2025-40217"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-04","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a system soft lockup and denial of service by triggering an infinite loop in the Linux kernel DAMON module during CPU hotplugging.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40218/"}