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CVE-2026-8917 is a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPU Tweak II, AI Suite 3, and VGAdll. The flaw is described as an untrusted pointer dereference in an IOCTL handling path that allows a local attacker to cause a write of a specific value to an arbitrary memory address. This memory corruption condition can be leveraged to alter privileged kernel or driver memory state and may result in elevation of privilege on the affected system. Reported affected versions include GPU Tweak III through 2.1.1.7, GPU Tweak II through 2.4.0.0, AI Suite 3 through 2.1.2.0, and VGAdll through 0.0.7.8.
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A local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPU Tweak II, AI Suite 3, and a component used by Armoury Crate.
A high-severity local arbitrary memory write / untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability in ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPUTweakII, AI Suite3, and VGAdll that can enable privilege escalation.
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