Improper privilege management in PowerVR GPU DDK - CVE-2024-43702

 

Improper privilege management in PowerVR GPU DDK - CVE-2024-43702

Published: April 7, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU107122
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43702
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Imagination Technologies
Affected software:
PowerVR GPU DDK

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local application to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to MLIST/PM render state buffers writable. A local application can write data to arbitrary kernel memory pages.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-43702

Install updates from vendor's website.

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