Bug 2396495 (CVE-2023-53425)

Summary: CVE-2023-53425 kernel: media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:01:32 UTC 
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'
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-18 19:49:52 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091856-CVE-2023-53425-6eb5@gregkh/T