CVE-2022-22706 vulnerability in Arm Products
Published on March 3, 2022
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.
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Unspecified Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory pages.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 20, 2023: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-22706 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
CVE-2022-22706 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-22706
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Exploit Probability
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