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FKIE_CVE-2022-22706

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-03-03 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:28

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory pages. This affects Midgard r26p0 through r31p0, Bifrost r0p0 through r35p0, and Valhall r19p0 through r35p0.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driver	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driver	Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22706	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
arm	bifrost_gpu_kernel_driver	*
arm	midgard_gpu_kernel_driver	*
arm	valhall_gpu_kernel_driver	*

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CVE-2022-22706 (GCVE-0-2022-22706)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-03 14:27 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:15

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-29 16:39 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

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