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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39673"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:20:38.769Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:29.786Z"
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-2025-39673"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39673.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39673"
title: "ppp: fix race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nppp: fix race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path\n\nppp_fill_forward_path() has two race conditions:\n\n1. The ppp-\u003echannels list can change between list_empty() and\n   list_first_entry(), as ppp_lock() is not held. If the only channel\n   is deleted in ppp_disconnect_channel(), list_first_entry() may\n   access an empty head or a freed entry, and trigger a panic.\n\n2. pch-\u003echan can be NULL. When ppp_unregister_channel() is called,\n   pch-\u003echan is set to NULL before pch is removed from ppp-\u003echannels.\n\nFix these by using a lockless RCU approach:\n- Use list_first_or_null_rcu() to safely test and access the first list\n  entry.\n- Convert list modifications on ppp-\u003echannels to their RCU variants and\n  add synchronize_net() after removal.\n- Check for a NULL pch-\u003echan before dereferencing it."
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