Kernel crash via invalid pointer use
Published Aug 8, 2025 · Updated Aug 11, 2025
Use-after-free in Imagination Technologies Graphics DDK allows remote attackers to trigger kernel exceptions or consume kernel memory. The kernel module's security-fix path leaks allocations or races while handling a pointer, leading it to read freed heap memory or dereference an uninitialized or NULL pointer. The public record does not identify the affected function or explain how remote input reaches this kernel-module path.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Imagination Technologies Graphics DDK allows remote attackers to trigger kernel exceptions or consume kernel memory. The kernel module's security-fix path leaks allocations or races while handling a pointer, leading it to read freed heap memory or dereference an uninitialized or NULL pointer. The public record does not identify the affected function or explain how remote input reaches this kernel-module path.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-46709
- Published
- Aug 8, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2025
- Vendor
- Imagination Technologies
- Product
- Graphics DDK
- Classifications
- CWE-416, CAPEC-124, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 8, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.15 RTM
- Affected versionversion=1.17 RTM
- Affected versionversion=1.18 RTM
- Affected versionversion=23.2 RTM <=25.1 RTM1
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