CVE-2022-36449: Arm Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver. A non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory, write a limited amount outside of buffer bounds, or to disclose details of memory mappings. This affects Midgard r4p0 through r32p0, Bifrost r0p0 through r38p0 and r39p0 before r38p1, and Valhall r19p0 through r38p0 and r39p0 before r38p1.

Affected products

• Arm Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: from r0p0, up to and including r38p0; version r39p0 only
• Arm Midgard GPU Kernel Driver: from r4p0, up to and including r32p0
• Arm Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r19p0, up to and including r38p0; version r39p0 only

Published 2022-09-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.