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CVE-2024-40973

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 5
NVD Status Analyzed
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Related CVEs
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Analyzed
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-07-12 13:15:18
(2 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-09-09 18:09:01
(9 days ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 6.6.36 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 6.6.36
  Linux Kernel from 6.7 version and prior 6.9.7 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 6.7 < 6.9.7