CVE-2024-40973 (GCVE-0-2024-40973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:32 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:30
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Title
media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f (git)
Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354 (git)
Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < 3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b (git)
Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.130 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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