CVE-2022-41757 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver. A non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to obtain write access to read-only memory, or obtain access to already freed memory. This affects Valhall r29p0 through r38p1 before r38p2, and r39p0 before r40p0.

Published: 2022-11-08

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

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Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:arm:valhall_gpu_kernel_driver::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:arm:valhall_gpu_kernel_driver:r39p0:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-44928	An issue was discovered in the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver. A non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to obtain write access to read-only memory, or obtain access to already freed memory. This affects Valhall r29p0 through r38p1 before r38p2, and r39p0 before r40p0.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00452.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-123
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Arm Valhall Gpu Kernel Driver

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-08T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T18:50:06.937Z

Reserved: 2022-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41757

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:49:43.538Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-08T15:15:11.073

Modified: 2025-05-01T19:15:54.017

Link: CVE-2022-41757

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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