CVE-2025-25177 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Imagination PowerVR GPU components on Android. The issue is described as allowing software running as a non-privileged user to perform improper GPU system calls that trigger a use-after-free condition in the kernel. This indicates a flaw in the lifetime management of kernel-side GPU-related objects or memory referenced through the graphics stack, where a previously freed resource can still be accessed after attacker-controlled interaction with the GPU driver interface. Because the vulnerable condition is reachable from an unprivileged context through GPU system-call handling, a malicious local application may be able to induce kernel exceptions and potentially influence subsequent kernel behavior depending on allocator state and execution timing.
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High-severity vulnerability impacting Imagination PowerVR GPU components (GPU driver class issues such as memory corruption/information disclosure/local privilege escalation are mentioned generally).
Imagination PowerVR GPU vulnerability fixed via vendor updates; may enable data leakage or execution paths via malicious GPU workloads.
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