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[BugTales] Da Vinci Hits a Nerve: Exploiting Huawei’s NPU Driver

Samsung’s neural processing framework has received a lot of attention from the security community since its introduction. Hardware isolation vulnerabilities have been demonstrated, both on the NPU and DSP cores (1, 2), that could be used to compromise the kernel. The surrounding kernel code was also exploited by multiple researchers to gain local privilege escalation (1, 2). I, too, explored in a

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Source category
Research & news
Report title
[BugTales] Da Vinci Hits a Nerve: Exploiting Huawei’s NPU Driver
First reported
Jul 30, 2021 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Jul 30, 2021 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC
Record ID
06da407a6f323c71d6adbf2e6502477526aa8dd8813402b0fd6b8bedfb7ade62

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src_350d40f2cc69277bca

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Jul 30, 2021 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC

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