CVE-2024-40973: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.36 (fixed in 6.6.36); from 6.7, before 6.9.7 (fixed in 6.9.7)

Published 2024-07-12. Last modified 2026-08-23.