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CVE-2024-6790

Mali GPU Kernel Driver can cause the whole system to become unresponsive

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.0
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Arm
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a non-privileged user process to make valid GPU memory processing operations, including via WebGL or WebGPU, to cause the whole system to become unresponsive.This issue affects Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: r44p1, from r46p0 through r49p0, from r50p0 through r51p0; Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: r44p1, from r46p0 through r49p0, from r50p0 through r51p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: r44p1, from r46p0 through r49p0, from r50p0 through r51p0.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Arm Ltd · Bifrost GPU Kernel Driveraffected r44p1 ; affected r46p0 ≤ r49p0 ; affected r50p0 ≤ r51p0
Arm Ltd · Valhall GPU Kernel Driveraffected r44p1 ; affected r46p0 ≤ r49p0 ; affected r50p0 ≤ r51p0
Arm Ltd · Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driveraffected r44p1 ; affected r46p0 ≤ r49p0 ; affected r50p0 ≤ r51p0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD