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CVE-2025-23160: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a resource leak related to the scp device in FW initialization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-01 · updated 2026-08-23
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a resource leak related to the scp device in FW initialization On Mediatek devices with a system companion processor (SCP) the mtk_scp structure has to be removed explicitly to avoid a resource leak. Free the structure in case the allocation of the firmware structure fails during the firmware initialization.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: from 6.1.130 before 6.1.153; from 6.6.36 before 6.6.88; from 6.9.7 before 6.12.24; from 6.13 before 6.13.12; from 6.14 before 6.14.3 — fixed in 6.1.153, 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3, 6.6.88

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.1.153, 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2540a81d5532829150b2e7cca977313b524066a9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4936cd5817af35d23e4d283f48fa59a18ef481e4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69dd5bbdd79c65445bb17c3c53510783bc1d756c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f009fa823c54ca0857c81f7525ea5a5d32de29c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac94e1db4b2053059779472eb58a64d504964240
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beaefe8dbb261f36376bb533a89ed69ab38e6747
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6cb086aa52bd51378a4c9e2b25d2def97770205
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7bb97ede487b9f075707b7408a9073e0d474b1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html

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