GHSA-FMMJ-6V74-3CM2
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-14 15:33 – Updated: 2026-01-14 15:33In 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": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-71140"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-01-14T15:16:03Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock\n\nPreviously a mutex was added to protect the encoder and decoder context\nlists from unexpected changes originating from the SCP IP block, causing\nthe context pointer to go invalid, resulting in a NULL pointer\ndereference in the IPI handler.\n\nTurns out on the MT8173, the VPU IPI handler is called from hard IRQ\ncontext. This causes a big warning from the scheduler. This was first\nreported downstream on the ChromeOS kernels, but is also reproducible\non mainline using Fluster with the FFmpeg v4l2m2m decoders. Even though\nthe actual capture format is not supported, the affected code paths\nare triggered.\n\nSince this lock just protects the context list and operations on it are\nvery fast, it should be OK to switch to a spinlock.",
"id": "GHSA-fmmj-6v74-3cm2",
"modified": "2026-01-14T15:33:02Z",
"published": "2026-01-14T15:33:02Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71140"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc8351"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e858938b0e659f6ec9ddcf853a87f1c5c3f44e1"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5844227e0f030d2af2d85d4aed10c5eca6ca176"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b92c19675f632a41af1222027a231bc2b7efa7ed"
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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