orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow...
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow... Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> forwarded me a message from Disclosure <[email protected]> with the following warning: > The helper `xattr_key()` uses the pointer variable in the loop condition > rather than dereferencing it. As `key` is incremented, it remains non-NULL > (until it runs into unmapped memory), so the loop does not terminate on > valid C strings and will walk memory indefinitely, consuming CPU or hanging > the thread. I easily reproduced this with setfattr and getfattr, causing a kernel oops, hung user processes and corrupted orangefs files. Disclosure sent along a diff (not a patch) with a suggested fix, which I based this patch on. After xattr_key started working right, xfstest generic/069 exposed an xattr related memory leak that lead to OOM. xattr_key returns a hashed key. When adding xattrs to the orangefs xattr cache, orangefs used hash_add, a kernel hashing macro. hash_add also hashes the key using hash_log which resulted in additions to the xattr cache going to the wrong hash bucket. generic/069 tortures a single file and orangefs does a getattr for the xattr "security.capability" every time. Orangefs negative caches on xattrs which includes a kmalloc. Since adds to the xattr cache were going to the wrong bucket, every getattr for "security.capability" resulted in another kmalloc, none of which were ever freed. I changed the two uses of hash_add to hlist_add_head instead and the memory leak ceased and generic/069 quit throwing furniture.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.117, 6.12.58, 6.17.8, 6.18
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40306
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v4qq-9xc6-v286
- 2026-11-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6564ff6b53c9a8dc786b6f1c51ae7688273f931
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef892d2bf4f3fa2c8de1677dd307e678bdd3d865
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15afebb9597449c444801d1ff0b8d8b311f950ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc812574de633cf9a9ad6974490e45f6a4bb5126
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e09a096104fc65859422817fb2211f35855983fe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9127d1e90c90e5960c8bc72a4ce2c209691a7021
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ca015ac109fd743fdde27933d59dc5ad46658e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/025e880759c279ec64d0f754fe65bf45961da864
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Sources
- CVE-2025-40306 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-40306 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-v4qq-9xc6-v286 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-40306 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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