How severe is CVE-2025-40155?

This vulnerability has a CVSS score of (Unknown severity).

How difficult is it to exploit CVE-2025-40155?

Exploit difficulty: HARD. Estimated time to exploit: > 4 hours. Required skills: Advanced security expertise.

CVE-2025-40155 - YourPassGen

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

iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Fix legacy mode page table dump logic

In legacy mode, SSPTPTR is ignored if TT is not 00b or 01b. SSPTPTR
maybe uninitialized or zero in that case and may cause oops like:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xf00087d3f000f000: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 786 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.16.0 #191 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:pgtable_walk_level+0x98/0x150
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000f279c0 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000040000000 RBX: ffffc90000f27ab0 RCX: 000000000000001e
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: f00087d3f000f000 RDI: f00087d3f0010000
RBP: ffffc90000f27a00 R08: ffffc90000f27a98 R09: 0000000000000002
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: f00087d3f000f000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000040000000 R15: ffffc90000f27a98
FS: 0000764566dcb740(0000) GS:ffff8881f812c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000764566d44000 CR3: 0000000109d81003 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

pgtable_walk_level+0x88/0x150
domain_translation_struct_show.isra.0+0x2d9/0x300
dev_domain_translation_struct_show+0x20/0x40
seq_read_iter+0x12d/0x490
…

Avoid walking the page table if TT is not 00b or 01b.

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How to fix CVE-2025-40155

CVE-2025-40155 is a unknown severity vulnerability affecting the affected product.

Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Fix legacy mode page table dump logic In legacy mode, SSPTPTR is ignored if TT is not 00b or 01b. SSPTPTR maybe uninitialized or zero in that case and may cause oops like: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xf00087d3f000f000: 0000 […]

Exploit Difficulty: HARD
⏱️ Time to exploit: > 4 hours
🛠️ Required skills: Advanced security expertise
💰 Public exploits: Rare or not public

How to Fix:

1 Identify affected systems

- Check if you're running the affected product

2 Immediate actions

- Update to the latest patched version
- If patching is not immediately possible: restrict network exposure, apply least-privilege access

3 Verification

- Test the fix in a staging environment first
- Review logs for signs of exploitation
- Monitor for IOCs (Indicators of Compromise)

4 Long-term prevention

- Enable automatic security updates
- Set up vulnerability monitoring
- Review and harden security configurations

Full CVE details

Exploit Difficulty Assessment

HARD

⏱️ Time to Exploit: > 4 hours

🛠️ Skills Required: Advanced security expertise

💰 Public Exploits: Rare or not public

Vulnerability Timeline

Nov 12, 2025

Vulnerability Published

CVE details first published to NVD database

Nov 12, 2025

Imported to Database

Added to this CVE tracking system

Detection Rules & IOCs

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