CVE-2025-39756

01/תיאור (מקור, אנגלית)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX When sysctl_nr_open is set to a very high value (for example, 1073741816 as set by systemd), processes attempting to use file descriptors near the limit can trigger massive memory allocation attempts that exceed INT_MAX, resulting in a WARNING in mm/slub.c: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 44 at mm/slub.c:5027 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x21a/0x288 This happens because kvmalloc_array() and kvmalloc() check if the requested size exceeds INT_MAX and emit a warning when the allocation is not flagged with __GFP_NOWARN. Specifically, when nr_open is set to 1073741816 (0x3ffffff8) and a process calls dup2(oldfd, 1073741880), the kernel attempts to allocate: - File descriptor array: 1073741880 * 8 bytes = 8,589,935,040 bytes - Multiple bitmaps: ~400MB - Total allocation size: > 8GB (exceeding INT_MAX = 2,147,483,647) Reproducer: 1. Set /proc/sys/fs/nr_open to 1073741816: # echo 1073741816 > /proc/sys/fs/nr_open 2. Run a program that uses a high file descriptor: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/resource.h> int main() { struct rlimit rlim = {1073741824, 1073741824}; setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlim); dup2(2, 1073741880); // Triggers the warning return 0; } 3. Observe WARNING in dmesg at mm/slub.c:5027 systemd commit a8b627a introduced automatic bumping of fs.nr_open to the maximum possible value. The rationale was that systems with memory control groups (memcg) no longer need separate file descriptor limits since memory is properly accounted. However, this change overlooked that: 1. The kernel's allocation functions still enforce INT_MAX as a maximum size regardless of memcg accounting 2. Programs and tests that legitimately test file descriptor limits can inadvertently trigger massive allocations 3. The resulting allocations (>8GB) are impractical and will always fail systemd's algorithm starts with INT_MAX and keeps halving the value until the kernel accepts it. On most systems, this results in nr_open being set to 1073741816 (0x3ffffff8), which is just under 1GB of file descriptors. While processes rarely use file descriptors near this limit in normal operation, certain selftests (like tools/testing/selftests/core/unshare_test.c) and programs that test file descriptor limits can trigger this issue. Fix this by adding a check in alloc_fdtable() to ensure the requested allocation size does not exceed INT_MAX. This causes the operation to fail with -EMFILE instead of triggering a kernel warning and avoids the impractical >8GB memory allocation request.

02/מוצרים מושפעים

linux: linux kernel; debian: debian linux

03/קישורים10

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a2c4b4511d186b0fce685da21085a5d4acd370 Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/237e416eb62101f21b28c9e6e564d10efe1ecc6f Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/628fc28f42d979f36dbf75a6129ac7730e30c04e Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/749528086620f8012b83ae032a80f6ffa80c45cd Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f61fa6a2a89a610120bc4e5d24379c667314b5c Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4159c5a90c03f8acd3de345a7f5fc63b0909818 Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4f9351243c17865a8cdbe6b3ccd09d0b13a7bcc Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfd1f4ea98c3bd3a03d12169b5b2daa1f0a3e4ae Patch
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95638a8f22eba307dceddf5aef9ae2326bbcf98 Patch
• lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory