CVE-2023-34970 (GCVE-0-2023-34970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-03 16:44 – Updated: 2025-03-07 18:28
VLAI
Title
Mali GPU Kernel Driver Allows Improper GPU Memory Processing Operations
Summary
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-06 15:54 UTC
CWE
Assigner
Arm CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 11 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver Affected: r44p0 , < r44p1 (patch)
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Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver Affected: r41p0 , < r44p1 (patch)
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Date Public
2023-10-02 10:00
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.