CVE-2024-40973

Published: Jul 12, 2024Modified: Aug 23, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP The return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked to avoid NULL pointer deference. This is similar to CVE-2022-3113.

Affected (2)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	Before 6.6.36
Linux Linux Kernel	From 6.7 to 6.9.7

Related CWEs

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (10)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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