CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40179
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big
In principle orphan file can be arbitrarily large. However orphan replay
needs to traverse it all and we also pin all its buffers in memory. Thus
filesystems with absurdly large orphan files can lead to big amounts of
memory consumed. Limit orphan file size to a sane value and also use
kvmalloc() for allocating array of block descriptor structures to avoid
large order allocations for sane but large orphan files.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6ce20c156442a4ce2a404747bb0fb05d54eeb3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b9da798ff0f4d026c5f0f815047393ebe7d8859 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/304fc34ff6fc8261138fd81f119e024ac3a129e9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/566a1d6084563bd07433025aa23bcea4427de107 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95a21611b14ae0a401720645245a8db16f040995 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d803fab8a6c6a874277cb80156dc114db91921 git.kernel.org