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CVE-2025-40179

UNKNOWN · CVSS N/A EPSS 0.20%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2025-11-12 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This vulnerability has an unknown severity rating. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2025-40179
Severity
UNKNOWN
CVSS
N/A
EPSS
0.20%
Linux

Original NVD 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.