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CVE-2021-44828

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver (Midgard r26p0 through r30p0, Bifrost r0p0 through r34p0, and Valhall r19p0 through r34p0) allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory, and possibly obtain root privileges, corrupt memory, and modify the memory of other processes.

Affected products

• Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: from r0p0 through r34p0
• Arm Ltd Midgard GPU Kernel Driver: from r26p0 through r30p0
• Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r19p0 through r34p0

References

• https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driver
• https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driver

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