# CVE-2019-16508: The Imagination Technologies driver for Chrome OS before R74-11895.B, R75 before R75-12105.B, and R76 before R76-12208.0.0 allows attackers

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-10-01 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Imagination Technologies driver for Chrome OS before R74-11895.B, R75 before R75-12105.B, and R76 before R76-12208.0.0 allows attackers to trigger an Integer Overflow and gain privileges via a malicious application. This occurs because of intentional access for the GPU process to /dev/dri/card1 and the PowerVR ioctl handler, as demonstrated by PVRSRVBridgeSyncPrimOpCreate.

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## Related

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## References

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=960106

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