PT-2022-14364 · Imagination Technologies+1 · Powervr-Gpu+1

Published 2022-08-24 · Updated 2022-08-29 · CVE-2022-20122

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android SoC versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The PowerVR GPU driver has an issue where unprivileged apps can allocate pinned memory, unpin it, and continue using the page in GPU calls without requiring any privileges. This results in kernel memory corruption.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-20122

Affected Products

Android

Powervr-Gpu

References · 3

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2022-08-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20122 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/48647 · Telegram Post