# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39847"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:20.648Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:07:35.941Z"
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-2025-39847"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39847.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39847"
title: "ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb\n\nIf alloc_skb() fails in pad_compress_skb(), it returns NULL without\nreleasing the old skb. The caller does:\n\n    skb = pad_compress_skb(ppp, skb);\n    if (!skb)\n        goto drop;\n\ndrop:\n    kfree_skb(skb);\n\nWhen pad_compress_skb() returns NULL, the reference to the old skb is\nlost and kfree_skb(skb) ends up doing nothing, leading to a memory leak.\n\nAlign pad_compress_skb() semantics with realloc(): only free the old\nskb if allocation and compression succeed.  At the call site, use the\nnew_skb variable so the original skb is not lost when pad_compress_skb()\nfails."
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