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High · 7.8 CVE-2024-35920 EUVD-2024-35638GHSA-78cr-5pf2-63v5

media: mediatek: vcodec: adding lock to protect decoder context list

Published May 19, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: mediatek: vcodec: adding lock to protect decoder context list

Add a lock for the ctx_list, to avoid accessing a NULL pointer
within the 'vpu_dec_ipi_handler' function when the ctx_list has
been deleted due to an unexpected behavior on the SCP IP block.

Hardware name: Google juniper sku16 board (DT)
pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : vpu_dec_ipi_handler+0x58/0x1f8 [mtk_vcodec_dec]
lr : scp_ipi_handler+0xd0/0x194 [mtk_scp]
sp : ffffffc0131dbbd0
x29: ffffffc0131dbbd0 x28: 0000000000000000
x27: ffffff9bb277f348 x26: ffffff9bb242ad00
x25: ffffffd2d440d3b8 x24: ffffffd2a13ff1d4
x23: ffffff9bb7fe85a0 x22: ffffffc0133fbdb0
x21: 0000000000000010 x20: ffffff9b050ea328
x19: ffffffc0131dbc08 x18: 0000000000001000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffffd2d461c6e0
x15: 0000000000000242 x14: 000000000000018f
x13: 000000000000004d x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000001 x10: fffffffffffffff0
x9 : ffffff9bb6e793a8 x8 : 0000000000000000
x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : fffffffffffffff0
x3 : 0000000000000020 x2 : ffffff9bb6e79080
x1 : 0000000000000010 x0 : ffffffc0131dbc08
Call trace:
vpu_dec_ipi_handler+0x58/0x1f8 [mtk_vcodec_dec (HASH:6c3f 2)]
scp_ipi_handler+0xd0/0x194 [mtk_scp (HASH:7046 3)]
mt8183_scp_irq_handler+0x44/0x88 [mtk_scp (HASH:7046 3)]
scp_irq_handler+0x48/0x90 [mtk_scp (HASH:7046 3)]
irq_thread_fn+0x38/0x94
irq_thread+0x100/0x1c0
kthread+0x140/0x1fc
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
Code: 54000088 f94ca50a eb14015f 54000060 (f9400108)
---[ end trace ace43ce36cbd5c93 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: 0x12c4000000 from 0xffffffc010000000
PHYS_OFFSET: 0xffffffe580000000
CPU features: 0x08240002,2188200c
Memory Limit: none

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.6 6.6.27

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.8.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.8.9-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-38.38 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1011.12 USN-6893-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1010.10 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1010.11 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1006.9 USN-6893-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 6.8.0-1008.8 USN-6918-1, USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel 6.8.0-1007.14 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1009.9 USN-6893-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1007.7 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-38.38.1 USN-6893-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1011.12~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1010.10~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1009.9~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1008.8~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2006.6 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1004.4 —

Advisories 5

References