CVE-2024-40973

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.003 · 22 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.29% (22nd) EPSS

CVSS 5.5 · medium

Is it mine?

50 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-476USprimaryCWE-252USCWE-476US

affected products (50)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Broadcom Brocade SANnavall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:broadcom:brocade_sannav:-
Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
IBM DB2 on Cloud Pak for Dataall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:db2:on_cloud_pak_for_data
IBM InfoSphere Guardiumall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_guardium:-
IBM QRadar SIEM <7.5.0 UP10 IF01all versionscert_bundDE
IBM QRadar SIEM <7.5.0 UP11all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Security Guardium 12.0all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:security_guardium:12.0
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus <10.1.6.4all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Storage Scale <6.1.9.5all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Storage Scale <6.2.2.0all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Storage Scale System <6.1.9.6all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Storage Scale System <6.2.2.1all versionscert_bundDE
Juniper Junos Space <24.1R2all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Linux Kernelall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Oracle VM 3all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:oracle:vm:3
RESF Rocky Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:resf:rocky_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1607Linux Kernel: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-07-14csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux-Kernel ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen oder einen unspezifischen Angriff durchzuführen.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-07-12modified 2026-10-26

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references (16)

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