CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40973
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org