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CVE-2023-4211 — Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2023-4211 · CWE: CWE-416

CVE-2023-4211: Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project Arm
Product Mali GPU Kernel Driver
Date added 2023-10-03
Due date 2023-10-24
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a local, non-privileged user to make improper GPU memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4211

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-416. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4211
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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