# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40973"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:32:10.763Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:45:19.178Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40973"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40973.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40973"
title: "media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac79a923365ae1e524398087cf16313cdbd7a144"},{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19ef02106c990bf4235365a08b9d8d2fee37272a"},{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eeb62bb4ca22db17f7dfe8fb8472e0442df3d92f"},{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f066882293b5ad359e44c4ed24ab1811ffb0b354"},{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a693c7e243b932faee5c1fb728efa73f0abc39b"},{"version":"590577a4e5257ac3ed72999a94666ad6ba8f24bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53dbe08504442dc7ba4865c09b3bbf5fe849681b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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