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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'

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