CVE-2024-40973

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-12

Updated: 2025-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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