Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2021-28663)
Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) kernel driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to make improper operations on GPU memory to gain root privilege, and/or disclose information.
A remote attacker, with a low-privilege account, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2021-11-17 under CISA BOD 22-01.
This is a Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows privilege escalation or information disclosure because GPU memory operations are mishandled, leading to a use-after-free. This affects Bifrost r0p0 through r28p0 before r29p0, Valhall r19p0 through r28p0 before r29p0, and Midgard r4p0 through r30p0. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, a low-privilege authenticated account, and no user interaction required.
Probably yes if any of these apply:
Active exploitation documented in the wild. Threat-research write-up: https://github.com/lntrx/CVE-2021-28663
Manual remediation steps
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