Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
CVE-2023-53425
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'
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bdmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238cmitre
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