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Not yet scoredPublished Nov 12, 2025

CVE-2025-40179ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

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Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 before 95a21611b14ae0a401720645245a8db16f040995; from 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 before 566a1d6084563bd07433025aa23bcea4427de107; from 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 before 304fc34ff6fc8261138fd81f119e024ac3a129e9; from 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 before a2d803fab8a6c6a874277cb80156dc114db91921; 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 builds before 2b9da798ff0f4d026c5f0f815047393ebe7d8859; 02f310fcf47fa9311d6ba2946a8d19e7d7d11f37 builds before 0a6ce20c156442a4ce2a404747bb0fb05d54eeb3
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