In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/s390: Make attach succeed when the device was surprise removed When a PCI device is removed with surprise hotplug, there may still be attempts to attach the device to the default domain as part of tear down via (__iommu_release_dma_ownership()), or because the removal happens during probe (__iommu_probe_device()). In both cases zpci_register_ioat() fails with a cc value indicating that the device handle is invalid. This is because the device is no longer part of the instance as far as the hypervisor is concerned. Currently this leads to an error return and s390_iommu_attach_device() fails. This triggers the WARN_ON() in __iommu_group_set_domain_nofail() because attaching to the default domain must never fail. With the device fenced by the hypervisor no DMAs to or from memory are possible and the IOMMU translations have no effect. Proceed as if the registration was successful and let the hotplug event handling clean up the device. This is similar to how devices in the error state are handled since commit 59bbf596791b ("iommu/s390: Make attach succeed even if the device is in error state") except that for removal the domain will not be registered later. This approach was also previously discussed at the link. Handle both cases, error state and removal, in a helper which checks if the error needs to be propagated or ignored. Avoid magic number condition codes by using the pre-existing, but never used, defines for PCI load/store condition codes and rename them to reflect that they apply to all PCI instructions.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-39958 is rated Low Risk (32.4/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2025-10-09 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (1 record total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 7.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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1.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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unimportant | CVE-2025-39958 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-39958 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-39958 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2025-39958 severity moderate: SUSE including 25 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 122 product×package rows across 25 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP6, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, … (25 product lines)): Will Not Fix 120, Known Not Affected 2. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-39958/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-39958 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1414 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1017, ignored 180, needed 111, released 88, not-affected 16, needs-triage 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39958 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.2, < 6.16.9 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* |