Skip to content
Advisories.
ArmCVE-2026-12285

Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: use after free

Medium4.0CVE-2026-12285 · Published Sep 8, 2026 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Use After Free 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 valid GPU memory processing operations to access already freed memory. This issue affects Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r51p0, from r54p1 through r54p2; Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r41p0 through r49p5, from r50p0 through r54p3, r55p0.

Arm advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver
Product
>= r41p0, <= r49p5No fix yet
>= r50p0, <= r54p3No fix yet
<= r55p0No fix yet
Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver
Product
>= r41p0, <= r49p5No fix yet
>= r50p0, <= r51p0No fix yet
>= r54p1, <= r54p2No fix yet
Valhall GPU Kernel Driver
Product
>= r41p0, <= r49p5No fix yet
>= r50p0, <= r54p3No fix yet
<= r55p0No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity from
CISA (its enrichment of the CVE record)
Weakness
CWE-416

More Arm advisories

All Arm
Advisory
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Userspace Driver: use after free
High7.8Sep 8
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: race condition
High7.7Sep 8
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: use after free
High7.8Sep 8
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: use after free
High7.8Sep 8
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: use after free
High7.8Sep 8
Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Userspace Driver: use after free
Medium5.1Sep 8

Critical advisories by email

Wednesdays: the week’s critical and high advisories in the AI and data stack, with the fixed versions. Only in weeks that have some.

Double opt-in. Unsubscribe any time.