Skip to content

The PowerVR GPU driver allows unprivileged apps to...

Critical severity Unreviewed Published Aug 25, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

No package listed— Suggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The PowerVR GPU driver allows unprivileged apps to allocated pinned memory, unpin it (which makes it available to be freed), and continue using the page in GPU calls. No privileges required and this results in kernel memory corruption.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-232441339

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 24, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-20122

GHSA ID

GHSA-5gjx-xwmm-pw26

Source code

No known source code

Dependabot alerts are not supported on this advisory because it does not have a package from a supported ecosystem with an affected and fixed version.

Learn more about GitHub language support

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.