CVE-2025-40153: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's workload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#98 stuck for 23s! [t2_new_sysv:126916] CPU: 98 PID: 126916 Comm: t2_new_sysv Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17-rc7 Hardware name: GIGACOMPUTING R2A3-T40-AAV1/Jefferson CIO, BIOS 5.4.4.1 07/15/2025 pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24 lr : mte_sync_tags+0x1c0/0x240 sp : ffff80003150bb80 x29: ffff80003150bb80 x28: ffff00739e9705a8 x27: 0000ffd2d6a00000 x26: 0000ff8e4bc00000 x25: 00e80046cde00f45 x24: 0000000000022458 x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: 000000011b380000 x20: ffff000000000000 x19: 000000011b379f40 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc875e0aa5e2c x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : fffffc01ce7a5c00

Description from the National Vulnerability Database, published by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

What it means for a small business

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How likely is an attack? The Exploit Prediction Scoring System, run by FIRST (the global association of security response teams), puts the odds of this one being exploited in the next 30 days at 0.21%, higher than 11% of CVEs. That’s low, but low isn’t zero, and the odds jump the day someone publishes an exploit. Scored October 29, 2026, updated daily.

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Sources

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