Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU memory processing operations

Description

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 memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory. This issue affects Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r29p0 through r49p3, from r50p0 through r53p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p3, from r50p0 through r53p0.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-416 Use After Free (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-416 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Arm Ltd · Valhall GPU Kernel Driver

  • affected r29p0 – ≤ r49p3
  • affected r50p0 – ≤ r53p0

• Arm Ltd · Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver

  • affected r41p0 – ≤ r49p3
  • affected r50p0 – ≤ r53p0

What to do

Solution: This issue has been fixed in the following versions: Valhall GPU Kernel Driver r49p4 and r54p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver r49p4, r54p0. Arm recommends that affected users upgrade to the latest applicable version at Mali Driver Downloads to protect against this issue.

References (1)

• https://developer.arm.com/documentation/110465/latest/ (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 12 May 2025, 15:51 UTC.