CVE-2023-53425
Moderate
media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
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'
Exploit probability
0.1%
Published
September 18, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-53425
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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'
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b3f25d3894a091abc247eadab266a2c9be64389
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2caeb722f0ea5d2d24af30bb1753a89d449b6aa0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d299e6e0ac3cf8ab4517dc29c9294bc4bf72398
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776b34615a29551d69d82a0082e7319d5ea284bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7bd48f0be84e24d21aa3a8f59a8a9cb8633a1c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1c5826223ae05a48d21f6708c6f34ee9006238c
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53425.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53425