CVE-2025-3212 — Use After Free in ARM 5TH GEN GPU Architecture Kernel Driver

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 81.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
11
ARM 5TH GEN GPU Architecture Kernel DriverARM Bifrost GPU Kernel DriverARM Valhall GPU Kernel Driver+8 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 8

Description

Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to perform valid GPU memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.This issue affects Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p4, from r50p0 through r51p0; Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p4, from r50p0 through r54p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Dr…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages11 packages

▶NVDarm/bifrost_gpu_kernel_driverr50p0 — r54p1+1
▶NVDarm/valhall_gpu_kernel_driverr50p0 — r54p1+1
▶CVEListV5arm_ltd/bifrost_gpu_kernel_driverr41p0 — r49p4+1
▶CVEListV5arm_ltd/valhall_gpu_kernel_driverr41p0 — r49p4+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-q5gx-qj4h-ghfh: Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driv↗2025-09-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Android
CVE-2025-3212: Mali↗2025-09-01
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Microsoft
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the gfs2 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs on corrupt gfs2 file systems when the evict code tries to reference the journal descriptor structure a↗2023-06-13
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