CVE-2023-53425 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 18

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'

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.15 — 4.19.293+6
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.197-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3003a180ef6b9462f3cccc2a89884ef2332d2a1c — 099e929e7477f37ca16738fc158d7101c0189ca1+8
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mgh8-mjvw-m7j5: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference If pdev is NULL, then i↗2025-09-18
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OSV
CVE-2023-53425: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference If pdev is NULL, then it↗2025-09-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference↗2025-09-18
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Debian
CVE-2023-53425: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: plat...↗2023
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