CVE-2024-40973 (GCVE-0-2024-40973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:32 – Updated: 2026-08-23 12:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:02 UTC
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144
(git)
Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < 19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a (git) Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f (git) Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354 (git) Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < 3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b (git) Affected: 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc , < 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.266 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.217 , ≤ 5.15.* (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) |
guessed |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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