CVE-2025-71140

Linux Kernel < 6.6.120, 6.7.0-6.12.64, 6.9.0-6.18.4 - Null Pointer Dereference in VPU IPI Handler

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock Previously a mutex was added to protect the encoder and decoder context lists from unexpected changes originating from the SCP IP block, causing the context pointer to go invalid, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the IPI handler. Turns out on the MT8173, the VPU IPI handler is called from hard IRQ context. This causes a big warning from the scheduler. This was first reported downstream on the ChromeOS kernels, but is also reproducible on mainline using Fluster with the FFmpeg v4l2m2m decoders. Even though the actual capture format is not supported, the affected code paths are triggered. Since this lock just protects the context list and operations on it are very fast, it should be OK to switch to a spinlock.

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.3%

Details

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel < 6.6.120linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.64linux
linux/Kernel 6.9.0 - 6.18.4linux
Linux/Linux < 6.9
Linux/Linux 0a2dc707aa42214f9c4827bd57e344e29a0841d6 - 2c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc8351
Linux/Linux 23aaf824121055ba81b55f75444355bd83c8eb38
Linux/Linux 41671f0c0182b2bae74ca7e3b0f155559e3e2fc5
Linux/Linux 51c84a8aac6e3b59af2b0e92ba63cabe2e641a2d
Linux/Linux 6.12.64 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.4 - 6.18.*
... and 8 more
Published Jan 14, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026