ACK: [SRU][J][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-40973

Magali Lemes magali.lemes at canonical.com
Thu Nov 21 14:48:13 UTC 2024


Acked-by: Magali Lemes <magali.lemes at canonical.com>

On 19/11/2024 13:23, Massimiliano Pellizzer wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP
> 
> The return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked to avoid
> NULL pointer deference.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Oracular: Not affected
> Noble: Fixed
> Jammy: Backported from mainline
> Focal: Not affected
> Bionic: Not affected
> Xenial: Not affected
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> Compile tested only.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> The fix affects the MediaTek video codec driver. An issue with this fix
> may lead to kernel crashes during video encoding or decoding operations.
> Users may also experience interruptions in multimedia playback.
> 
> Fullway Wang (1):
>    media: mtk-vcodec: potential null pointer deference in SCP
> 
>   drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_scp.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 



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