# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-9040"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-08T14:21:22.296Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-10T17:55:34.060Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-9040"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-9040.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9040"
title: "Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows denial of service or disclosure of sensitive information"
summary: "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.\n\n\n\nThis 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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"r12p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r49p5"},{"version":"r50p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r51p0"},{"version":"r54p1","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r54p2"}],"vendor":"Arm Ltd","product":"Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"r19p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r49p5"},{"version":"r50p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r54p3"},{"version":"r55p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch"},{"version":"r56p0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"patch"}],"vendor":"Arm Ltd","product":"Valhall GPU Kernel Driver","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"r41p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r49p5"},{"version":"r50p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch","lessThanOrEqual":"r54p3"},{"version":"r55p0","status":"affected","versionType":"patch"},{"version":"r56p0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"patch"}],"vendor":"Arm Ltd","product":"Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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