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CVE-2025-71140

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 sched

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:2daf4e4bc4f4f69224b2fa18f8301623c3a4ca6e3ce032e3df1694bcd015f3d5

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/common/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/mtk_vcodec_dec_drv.c","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/mtk_vcodec_dec_drv.h","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec_vpu_if.c","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/encoder/mtk_vcodec_enc_drv.c","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/encoder/mtk_vcodec_enc_drv.h","drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/encoder/venc_vpu_if.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/…

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Affected products and versions

2 source assertions

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Source references

4 source assertions

{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc8351"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e858938b0e659f6ec9ddcf853a87f1c5c3f44e1"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5844227e0f030d2af2d85d4aed10c5eca6ca176"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b92c19675f632a41af1222027a231bc2b7efa7ed"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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