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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-20769 EUVD-2026-56492GHSA-vfmv-9397-c37w

Improper conditions check for the Intel(R) NPU Driver for all versions within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unpr…

Published Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 12, 2026 · Assigned by intel

Description

Improper conditions check for the Intel(R) NPU Driver for all versions within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (low) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Intel(R) NPU Driver all versions —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 firmware-nonfree 20260410-1 —
Debian 13 firmware-nonfree No fix yet —

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