CVE-2023-53425

Updated on 18 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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’

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)

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’

Fixes