CVE-2025-71140
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2025-71140, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-01-14
Last updated on: 2026-01-14
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| mediatek | vcodec | * |
| linux | kernel | * |
| ffmpeg | v4l2m2m | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
