CVE-2025-40179

Linux Kernel 5.15.0-6.17.4 - DoS via Orphan File Size Verification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.3%

Details

Status published
Products (19)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.195linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.157linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.113linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.54linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 - 0a6ce20c156442a4ce2a404747bb0fb05d54eeb3
Linux/Linux 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 - 2b9da798ff0f4d026c5f0f815047393ebe7d8859
Linux/Linux 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 - 304fc34ff6fc8261138fd81f119e024ac3a129e9
Linux/Linux 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 - 566a1d6084563bd07433025aa23bcea4427de107
... and 9 more
Published Nov 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026