Intel® Driver and Support Assistant Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Driver and Support Assistant may allow denial of service.** Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.**

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2020-0568

Description: Race condition in the Intel® Driver and Support Assistant before version 20.1.5 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

Intel® Driver and Support Assistant before version 20.1.5.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Intel® Driver and Support Assistant to version 20.1.5 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Andrew Hess (any1) for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.