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Message-ID: <2025111243-CVE-2025-40179-6d22@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:42 -0500
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40179: ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
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.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40179 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 5.15.195 with commit 95a21611b14ae0a401720645245a8db16f040995
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 6.1.157 with commit 566a1d6084563bd07433025aa23bcea4427de107
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 6.6.113 with commit 304fc34ff6fc8261138fd81f119e024ac3a129e9
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 6.12.54 with commit a2d803fab8a6c6a874277cb80156dc114db91921
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 6.17.4 with commit 2b9da798ff0f4d026c5f0f815047393ebe7d8859
Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 0a6ce20c156442a4ce2a404747bb0fb05d54eeb3
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40179
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
fs/ext4/orphan.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95a21611b14ae0a401720645245a8db16f040995
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/566a1d6084563bd07433025aa23bcea4427de107
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/304fc34ff6fc8261138fd81f119e024ac3a129e9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d803fab8a6c6a874277cb80156dc114db91921
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b9da798ff0f4d026c5f0f815047393ebe7d8859
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6ce20c156442a4ce2a404747bb0fb05d54eeb3
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