CVE-2023-53425

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use After Free

Title source: llm

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'

References (8)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bd

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238c

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 2.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Affected Products (1)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.324

Timeline

Published Sep 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026