CVE-2026-49743: imagination technologies graphics ddk Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-49743 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in imagination technologies graphics ddk. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 24-07-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 24-07-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to manipulate the lifetimes of synchronisation objects in the kernel, leading to read/write UAFs. During workload submission involving a fence exported by the GPU driver, the reference count of the underlying synchronisation primitive is not properly incremented. This can be exploited, by destroying the exported fence and prematurely release the underlying primitive, resulting in a potential use-after-free condition.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.