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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skbIf alloc_skb() fails in pad_compress_skb(), it returns NULL withoutreleasing 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 islost and kfree_skb(skb) ends up doing nothing, leading to a memory leak.Align pad_compress_skb() semantics with realloc(): only free the oldskb if allocation and compression succeed. At the call site, use thenew_skb variable so the original skb is not lost when pad_compress_skb()fails.
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- https://github.com/w4zu/Debian_security