CVE-2024-40973MediumMicrosoft CVSS 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-40973 — cbl2 kernel

Published
May 31, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products4

  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.186.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.200.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-40973

EchelonGraph score
5.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

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.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-40973, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (1)