CVE-2025-40306

orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow...

CVE-2025-40306 is fixed in 19 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40306, released December 8, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0016
5th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow... Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> forwarded me a message from Disclosure <disclosure@aisle.com> 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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
dtb-aarch64 · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-64kb · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-64kb · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.24.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1 Jan 23, 2026
kernel-debug · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-default · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-default · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-default · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-default-base · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1.150600.12.38.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-default-base · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1.150600.12.38.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-default-base · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1.150700.17.19.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-docs · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-docs · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-docs · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-kvmsmall · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_19 · sles 15.6 1-150600.13.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_8 · sles 15.7 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1 Jan 23, 2026
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_8 · sles 15.7 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-obs-build · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-obs-build · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-obs-build · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-obs-qa · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-source · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-source · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-source · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-source-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.24.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1 Jan 23, 2026
kernel-syms · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-syms · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-syms · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
kernel-syms-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.24.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1 Jan 23, 2026
kernel-zfcpdump · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1 Jan 26, 2026
kernel-zfcpdump · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1 Jan 28, 2026
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.159-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40306 Dec 8, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.63-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40306 Dec 8, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.17.8-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40306 Dec 8, 2025

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