CVE-2023-33200 (GCVE-0-2023-33200)
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Published
2023-10-03 16:39
Modified
2025-03-07 18:29
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to exploit a software race condition. If the system’s memory is carefully prepared by the user, then this in turn could give them access to already freed memory.
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Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver Version: r17p0
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