CVE-2023-3889 (GCVE-0-2023-3889)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-07 15:28
Modified
2025-03-24 18:00
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
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.
References
Impacted products
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Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver Version: r38p0
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