CVE-2024-4610 Arm CVE debrief

Who should care

Security teams responsible for systems that use the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver, including endpoint, mobile, embedded, and platform owners; vulnerability management teams tracking CISA KEV items; and operations teams that can rapidly validate mitigations or updates.

Technical summary

The supplied source data identifies CVE-2024-4610 as a use-after-free vulnerability in Arm’s Mali GPU Kernel Driver. The corpus does not include the vulnerable versions, exploitation prerequisites, or a vendor impact statement, so the safest evidence-based summary is limited to the vulnerability class and product affected. Because the issue is listed in CISA KEV with a due date of 2024-07-03, remediation should be prioritized using Arm’s official security guidance and the NVD record.

Defensive priority

High. CISA KEV inclusion indicates this vulnerability must be addressed quickly, with a remediation target of 2024-07-03 per the KEV metadata.

Recommended defensive actions

• Inventory all systems, devices, and products that include the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver.
• Apply mitigations per Arm’s official security guidance as soon as possible.
• If mitigations or updates are unavailable, discontinue use of the affected product where feasible.
• Track the NVD and CVE record for any vendor-published affected-version and remediation details.
• Prioritize remediation before the CISA KEV due date of 2024-07-03.
• Validate that vulnerability-management exceptions are documented only when a compensating control is in place.

Evidence notes

This debrief is based only on the supplied CISA KEV metadata and official links. The corpus identifies CVE-2024-4610 as an Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver use-after-free vulnerability, published and added to KEV on 2024-06-12, with a remediation due date of 2024-07-03. The supplied corpus does not provide affected versions, exploit details, or impact scoring, so those facts are intentionally not asserted here.

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