CVE-2023-53425 (GCVE-0-2023-53425)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:44
VLAI?
Title
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
Summary
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'
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1 (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389 (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238c (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0 (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bd (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4 (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398 (git)
Affected: 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c , < 3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.324 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.293 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.255 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.192 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.128 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.47 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.12 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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