CVE-2023-53425

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.14.324 - NULL Pointer Dereference in VPU Firmware Load

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 8

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (19)
Linux/Linux < 4.8
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - 776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bd
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4
Linux/Linux 3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c - c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238c
Linux/Linux 4.14.324 - 4.14.*
... and 9 more
Published Sep 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026