Vulnerabilites related to Khronos Group - Vulkan
CVE-2023-4969 (GCVE-0-2023-4969)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-16 17:01
Modified
2025-06-20 17:10
Summary
A GPU kernel can read sensitive data from another GPU kernel (even from another user or app) through an optimized GPU memory region called _local memory_ on various architectures.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Khronos Group OpenCL Version: 3.0.11   <
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