Tracker / CVE-2025-39847
CVE-2025-39847
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb If alloc_skb() fails in pad_compress_skb(), it returns NULL without releasing the old skb. The caller does: skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb); if (!skb) goto drop; drop: kfree_skb(skb); When pad_compress_skb() returns NULL, the reference to the old skb is lost and kfree_skb(skb) ends up doing nothing, leading to a memory leak. Align pad_compress_skb() semantics with realloc(): only free the old skb if allocation and compression succeed. At the call site, use the new_skb variable so the original skb is not lost when pad_compress_skb() fails.
Affected products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.15 → 5.4.299 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.192 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.151 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.243 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.16.6 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.105 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.46 |
Analysis
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