Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-39815
CVE-2021-39815
Description
The PowerVR GPU driver allows unprivileged apps to allocated pinned memory, unpin it (which makes it available to be freed), and continue using the page in GPU calls. No privileges required and this results in kernel memory corruption.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-232440670
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References
1- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2022-08-01nvdVendor Advisory
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