CVE-2023-34970 (GCVE-0-2023-34970)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-03 16:44
Modified
2025-03-07 18:28
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to access a limited amount outside of buffer bounds or to exploit a software race condition. If the system’s memory is carefully prepared by the user, then this in turn could give them access to already freed memory
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Impacted products
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Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver Version: r44p0
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