CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-39847

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-19 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-19
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.15 < 5.4.299) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.243) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.192) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.151) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.105) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.6) • linux linux kernel 6.17 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References