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CVE-2023-53425: media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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

• Linux kernel: before 4.14.324; from 4.15 before 4.19.293; from 4.20 before 5.4.255; from 5.5 before 5.10.192; from 5.11 before 5.15.128; from 5.16 before 6.1.47 — fixed in 4.14.324, 4.19.293, 5.10.192, 5.15.128, 5.4.255, 6.1.47

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.324, 4.19.293, 5.10.192, 5.15.128. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238c

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