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  "id": "RPI-CVE-2024-40973",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2024-40973"
  ],
  "published": "2024-07-12T12:32:42Z",
  "summary": "media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP\n\nThe return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked to avoid\nNULL pointer deference. This is similar to CVE-2022-3113.",
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        "name": "linux"
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            "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)",
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  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40973"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a"
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    },
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      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b"
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      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b"
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    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-08-23T12:46:35Z"
  }
}