CVE-2026-5729

Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows access to already freed memory

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-09-08
Updated: 2026-09-10
Assigner: Arm
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Description

Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to perform valid GPU processing operations to access already freed memory. This issue affects Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-72795
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-5729

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1158 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Google Android · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
Arm Ltd · Valhall GPU Kernel Driver	affected r50p0 ≤ r54p3 ; affected r55p0 ; unaffected r56p0
Arm Ltd · Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver	affected r50p0 ≤ r54p3 ; affected r55p0 ; unaffected r56p0

References

https://support.arm.com/documentation/111552/1-0/?lang=en

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD