CVE-2026-53169

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's accel/ethosu driver. An unprivileged local user with access to the Direct Rendering Manager DRM device could submit a specific command NPUOPRESIZE that the driver does not properly handle. This could lead to excessive kernel log spam and, if the paniconwarn...

CVE-2026-53169

In the Linux kernel, accel/ethosu has been fixed to reject NPU_OP_RESIZE commands from userspace. The driver previously used an unconditional WARN_ON(1) in DRM_IOCTL_ETHOSU_GEM_CREATE, enabling kernel log spam and, if panic_on_warn was set, potential DoS via a local unprivileged user. The patch r...