CVE-2026-9040: high-severity vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver
Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows denial of service or disclosure of sensitive information
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 0.1%
A race condition 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 local non-privileged user process to perform improper GPU memory processing operations to cause a denial of service or disclose sensitive information.
This issue affects Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: from r12p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r51p0, from r54p1 through r54p2; Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r19p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Arm Ltd · Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel DriverArm Ltd · Bifrost GPU Kernel DriverArm Ltd · Valhall GPU Kernel DriverRelated CVEs — Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver
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