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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories

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CyberNew Threat Research Desk
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Analyst Takeaway

"Major chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Nvidia published new security advisories on Tuesday to notify customers of vulnerabilities recently discovered in their products. AMD announced fixes for CVE-2026-43603, a NULL pointer dereference flaw in its Linux GPU kernel driver that could lead to system crashes and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The company credited Maxime Rossi Bellom and Ramtine Tofighi..."

Recommended Defense & Mitigation

  • Access Review: Audit administrative roles, enforce phishing-resistant MFA, and review privilege escalations.
  • Credential Rotation: Rotate high-privilege service credentials and tokens associated with impacted services.
Curated & Verified by CyberNew Threat Intelligence Desk Standard Defense Framework (NIST / MITRE ATT&CK)

Major chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Nvidia published new security advisories on Tuesday to notify customers of vulnerabilities recently discovered in their products.

AMD announced fixes for CVE-2026-43603, a NULL pointer dereference flaw in its Linux GPU kernel driver that could lead to system crashes and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

The company credited Maxime Rossi Bellom and Ramtine Tofighi Shirazi from SecMate for reporting the security defect.

“According to the researchers’ report, when an application invokes a specific graphics memory management interface to perform a ‘clear’ operation under certain compute-processing conditions, the driver may fail to validate an internal data reference before use,” AMD notes in its advisory.

The company rolled out fixes for EPYC Athlon, Ryzen, Radeon, and Instinct processors in July. It plans to release the patches for the EPYC Embedded and Ryzen Embedded processors in October.

Arm published an advisory covering nine vulnerabilities in its Mali GPUs that could allow access to already freed memory or to sensitive kernel information, or could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

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The company has released fixes for the Valhall GPU and Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture kernel and userspace drivers. The Bifrost GPU kernel and userspace drivers are also affected.

Written By Ionut Arghire

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