# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71071"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:31:25.400Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:03:04.559Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71071"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71071.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71071"
title: "iommu/mediatek: fix use-after-free on probe deferral"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/mediatek: fix use-after-free on probe deferral\n\nThe driver is dropping the references taken to the larb devices during\nprobe after successful lookup as well as on errors. This can\npotentially lead to a use-after-free in case a larb device has not yet\nbeen bound to its driver so that the iommu driver probe defers.\n\nFix this by keeping the references as expected while the iommu driver is\nbound."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8412e5dd24ffc8bc21a00bfaa0b80d4596cdc9da","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"896ec55da3b90bdb9fc04fedc17ad8c359b2eee5"},{"version":"26593928564cf5b576ff05d3cbd958f57c9534bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c04217d06a1161aaf36267e9d971ab6f847d5a7"},{"version":"26593928564cf5b576ff05d3cbd958f57c9534bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ef70a0b104ae8011811f60bcfaa55ff49385171"},{"version":"26593928564cf5b576ff05d3cbd958f57c9534bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6c08d3aa441bbc1956e9d65f1cbb89113a5aa8a"},{"version":"26593928564cf5b576ff05d3cbd958f57c9534bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de83d4617f9fe059623e97acf7e1e10d209625b5"},{"version":"51080de72e26771f0ed9d44982974279ccbc92b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.160"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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