- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 78% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 78% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < 19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < 3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b
- affected 590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc – < 53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b
- affected 4.10
- unaffected < 4.10
- unaffected 5.10.266 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.217 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.130 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.36 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.9.7 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-38770 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-40973)Record last updated .