arm bifrost 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.

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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. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

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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Arm Bifrost
 
Arm Midgard
 
Arm Valhall
 

What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2022-22706?