CVE-2025-71140 | media: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock

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.

Published: 2026-01-14 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-71140 is rated Low Risk (3.6/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-71140

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-15 0.02%

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Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-71140

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-71140

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-71140

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-71140 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-71140
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-71140
suse medium CVE-2025-71140 severity moderate: SUSE including 23 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 215 product×package rows across 41 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0, … (41 product lines)): Known Not Affected 215. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-71140/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-71140 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1562 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1157, ignored 179, released 119, not-affected 89, pending 11, needed 7. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-71140

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-71140

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References for CVE-2025-71140

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