🛡️ CVE-2023-28469 — avalon-gpu-kernel-driver

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver. A non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory. This affects Valhall r29p0 through r42p0 before r43p0, and Arm's GPU Architecture Gen5 r41p0 through r42p0 before r43p0.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2023-28469 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • :unknown: (from SoCVersion:0 up to SoCVersion:2023-11-05)
  • avalon-gpu-kernel-driver (from r41p0 up to r43p0)
  • valhall-gpu-kernel-driver (from r29p0 up to r43p0)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 November 2023 and last revised on 11 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

source.android.com (Advisory)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-01
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
:unknown: SoCVersion:0 SoCVersion:2023-11-05
avalon-gpu-kernel-driver r41p0 r43p0
valhall-gpu-kernel-driver r29p0 r43p0

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