CVE-2025-8045 (GCVE-0-2025-8045)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 10:32 – Updated: 2025-12-01 13:07
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Summary
Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to perform improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.This issue affects Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r53p0 through r54p1; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r53p0 through r54p1.
Severity ?
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
Arm
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver Affected: r53p0 , ≤ r54p1 (patch)
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Credits
Pumpkin (@u1f383) from DEVCORE Research Team
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