Upstream information

CVE-2025-40179 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1253442 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Nov 13 00:03:54 2025
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 13 17:27:49 2025