CVE-2025-71140 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-71140

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0a2dc707aa42214f9c4827bd57e344e29a0841d6, 6467cda18c9f9b5f2f9a0aa1e2861c653e41f382, 23aaf824121055ba81b55f75444355bd83c8eb38, 41671f0c0182b2bae74ca7e3b0f155559e3e2fc5, 51c84a8aac6e3b59af2b0e92ba63cabe2e641a2d, 6.6.27, 6.8.6, 6.9, 0, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.4, 6.19

Timeline

Official Publish: January 14th, 2026
Last Modified: May 27th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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