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High · 8.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2021-28664 EUVD-2021-15328GHSA-w62f-9gm7-596f

The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows privilege escalation or a denial of service (memory corruption) because an unprivileged user can achi…

Published May 10, 2021 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows privilege escalation or a denial of service (memory corruption) because an unprivileged user can achieve read/write access to read-only pages. This affects Bifrost r0p0 through r29p0 before r30p0, Valhall r19p0 through r29p0 before r30p0, and Midgard r8p0 through r30p0 before r31p0.

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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