5.5

CVE-2025-23160: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a resource leak related to the scp device in FW initialization

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23160DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23160
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 23-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-23160 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 32 · Related 30
DLA-4328-1DSA-6009-1SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1SUSE-SU-2025:01965-1

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a resource leak related to the scp device in FW initialization On Mediatek devices with a system companion processor (SCP) the mtk_scp structure has to be removed explicitly to avoid a resource leak. Free the structure in case the allocation of the firmware structure fails during the firmware initialization.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu127 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144, < beaefe8dbb261f36376bb533a89ed69ab38e6747 | ≥ 19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a, < 2540a81d5532829150b2e7cca977313b524066a9 | ≥ eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f, < 69dd5bbdd79c65445bb17c3c53510783bc1d756c | ≥ f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354, < fd7bb97ede487b9f075707b7408a9073e0d474b1 | ≥ 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b, < 9f009fa823c54ca0857c81f7525ea5a5d32de29c | ≥ 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b, < d6cb086aa52bd51378a4c9e2b25d2def97770205 | ≥ 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b, < ac94e1db4b2053059779472eb58a64d504964240 | ≥ 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b, < 4936cd5817af35d23e4d283f48fa59a18ef481e4 | 3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b | ≥ 6.1.130, < 6.1.153 | ≥ 6.6.36, < 6.6.88 | ≥ 6.9.7, < 6.10 | 6.10
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.1.130, < 6.1.153 | ≥ 6.6.36, < 6.6.88 | ≥ 6.9.7, < 6.12.24 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.12 | ≥ 6.14, < 6.14.3

3 vendors · 131 products

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