CVE-2023-53425

media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 18, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Sep 17, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference

If pdev is NULL, then it is still dereferenced.

This fixes this smatch warning:

drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.c:570 vpu_load_firmware() warn: address of NULL pointer 'pdev'

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1Affected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389Affected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238cAffected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0Affected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bdAffected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4Affected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398Affected 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27Affected
LinuxLinux	4.8Affected before 4.8Not affected 4.14.324 through 4.14.Not affected 4.19.293 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.255 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.192 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.128 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.47 through 6.1.Not affected 6.4.12 through 6.4.*Not affected 6.5 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1Affected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389Affected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238cAffected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0Affected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bdAffected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4Affected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398Affected
3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c to before 3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27Affected

LinuxLinux

4.8Affected
before 4.8Not affected
4.14.324 through 4.14.*Not affected
4.19.293 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.255 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.192 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.128 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.47 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.4.12 through 6.4.*Not affected
6.5 and laterNot affected

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