CVE-2025-71140

media: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock

published January 14, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00187 · 7.9th percentile
Published
2026-01-14T15:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 JAN 15:07Z
    media: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock
    cvelistv5