MediumFix available
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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'
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.14.324, 4.19.293, 5.10.192, 5.15.128, 5.4.255, 6.1.47, 6.4.12
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53425
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 00:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Sept 2025, 16:04 UTC
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'
osv:CVE-2023-53425
Kernel
Fixed versions: 4.14.324, 4.19.293, 5.4.255, 5.10.192, 5.15.128, 6.1.47, 6.4.12
Complete source record
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