src_350d40f2cc69277bca
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 02, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC
CVE-2021-22388: Huawei NPU Kernel Driver Function Pointer Overwrite
Summary The NPU device’s kernel driver implements a set of ioctl handlers one of which uses unsanitized user data as an index into a function pointer array. The user provided values can exceed the boundaries of the legitimate array and might cause user controlled values to be called as function pointers. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to hijack the control flow of the kernel and call
Reference details
- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
CVE-2021-22388: Huawei NPU Kernel Driver Function Pointer Overwrite- First reported
- Aug 02, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 02, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:51 UTC
- Record ID
469988b1980a85f2ff0bb4226c4f9d2e83eb93739f5b9dcbae249d4c0ae24ce6
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