# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40306"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:31.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:24.767Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40306"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40306.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40306"
title: "orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow..."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\norangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow...\n\nWilly Tarreau \u003cw@1wt.eu\u003e forwarded me a message from\nDisclosure \u003cdisclosure@aisle.com\u003e with the following\nwarning:\n\n\u003e The helper `xattr_key()` uses the pointer variable in the loop condition\n\u003e rather than dereferencing it. As `key` is incremented, it remains non-NULL\n\u003e (until it runs into unmapped memory), so the loop does not terminate on\n\u003e valid C strings and will walk memory indefinitely, consuming CPU or hanging\n\u003e the thread.\n\nI easily reproduced this with setfattr and getfattr, causing a kernel\noops, hung user processes and corrupted orangefs files. Disclosure\nsent along a diff (not a patch) with a suggested fix, which I based\nthis patch on.\n\nAfter xattr_key started working right, xfstest generic/069 exposed an\nxattr related memory leak that lead to OOM. xattr_key returns\na hashed key.  When adding xattrs to the orangefs xattr cache, orangefs\nused hash_add, a kernel hashing macro. hash_add also hashes the key using\nhash_log which resulted in additions to the xattr cache going to the wrong\nhash bucket. generic/069 tortures a single file and orangefs does a\ngetattr for the xattr \"security.capability\" every time. Orangefs\nnegative caches on xattrs which includes a kmalloc. Since adds to the\nxattr cache were going to the wrong bucket, every getattr for\n\"security.capability\" resulted in another kmalloc, none of which were\never freed.\n\nI changed the two uses of hash_add to hlist_add_head instead\nand the memory leak ceased and generic/069 quit throwing furniture."
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