CVE-2023-3889 (GCVE-0-2023-3889)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-07 15:28 – Updated: 2025-12-16 18:13
VLAI?
Title
Mali GPU Kernel Driver exposes sensitive data from freed memory
Summary
A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU memory processing operations. If the operations are carefully prepared, then they could be used to gain access to already freed memory.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-667 - Improper Locking
Assigner
Arm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver Affected: r38p0 , ≤ r44p0 (patch)
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Date Public ?
2023-11-07 11:00
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