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CVE-2025-71140
published 2026-01-14

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…

PriorityP421medium6.4
EPSS
0.17%
6.7th percentile
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.

Affected

45 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.18.5-1 (forky)linux 6.18.5-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux
linuxlinux
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 0a2dc707aa42214f9c4827bd57e344e29a0841d6 < 2c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc83512c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc8351
linuxlinux>= 6.6.27 < 6.6.1206.6.120
linuxlinux>= 6.8.6 < 6.96.9
linuxlinux>= 6467cda18c9f9b5f2f9a0aa1e2861c653e41f382 < b92c19675f632a41af1222027a231bc2b7efa7edb92c19675f632a41af1222027a231bc2b7efa7ed
linuxlinux>= 6467cda18c9f9b5f2f9a0aa1e2861c653e41f382 < 3e858938b0e659f6ec9ddcf853a87f1c5c3f44e13e858938b0e659f6ec9ddcf853a87f1c5c3f44e1
linuxlinux>= 6467cda18c9f9b5f2f9a0aa1e2861c653e41f382 < a5844227e0f030d2af2d85d4aed10c5eca6ca176a5844227e0f030d2af2d85d4aed10c5eca6ca176
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.69-16.12.69-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.18.5-16.18.5-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.1206.6.120
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.0 < 6.12.646.12.64
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.9.0 < 6.18.46.18.4
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