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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-40973 json

media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP

published 2024-07-12 2 y ago modified 2026-08-23 2 mo ago also EUVD-2024-38770

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.266, 5.15.217, 6.1.130, 6.6.36, 6.9.7, 6.10
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.133-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40973

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-130.140
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-44.44
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1076.83
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.16
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1074.83
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1014.16
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1072.78
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1010.13

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40973

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-11.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-11.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-20.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20077-1SUSE-SU-2025:20073-1SUSE-SU-2024:3592-1SUSE-SU-2024:3587-1SUSE-SU-2024:3569-1SUSE-SU-2024:3566-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-40973 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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