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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2024-40973 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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.

[NVD] CVE-2024-40973 (MEDIUM 5.5) — 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.

lownvdPublished 2024-07-12

CVE-2024-40973 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2024-07-12T13:15:18.890

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.

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2024-40973cve
CVE-2022-3113cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40973