Editor’s take:<\/strong> Intel’s grand comeback will likely take a bit more time than initially expected. The CPU maker is clearly struggling with both hardware design and software development, and customers are left stranded in a sea of reliability issues, microcode updates, and security flaws as a consequence. <\/p>\n Like many other IT vendors and software developers, Intel has long been releasing new security patches at the same time as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday<\/a>. This month’s series of updates is designed to close potentially dangerous bugs affecting both hardware and software<\/a> products across several generations of CPU, GPU, and integrated GPU solutions.<\/p>\n Starting with the software products, there was a single security vulnerability<\/a> discovered in the Endurance Gaming Mode software, which could be exploited to gain higher access privileges on a system. The medium-rated flaw is fixed in the latest versions of the real-time monitoring application for laptops based on Intel chips.<\/p>\n The largest batch of security flaws fixed this month was discovered in Intel’s graphics drivers, for both integrated GPUs and discrete Arc cards. Intel’s advisory<\/a> lists ten different “potential” security vulnerabilities with a high severity rating, which could be exploited to gain privileged access, bring systems down through a DDoS attack, or access sensitive information. Newer driver releases should fix these high-severity graphics driver vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n Bugged drivers affect graphics architectures integrated in several Intel processors, ranging from the 6th-gen Intel Core CPU family to the latest Core Ultra chips. The troubled Arrow Lake microarchitecture<\/a> is affected as well, of course. Furthermore, Intel released new bugfix drivers for its Data Center GPU Flex series (140, 170).<\/p>\n Last but not least, Intel had to release a couple of firmware updates this month to fix some medium-rated issues in the Core Ultra processors. These particular hardware bugs affect the Integrated Connectivity I\/O interface<\/a> in certain Core Ultra CPUs, which may allow escalation of access privileges if properly exploited.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/images2\/news\/bigimage\/2025\/05\/2025-05-12-image-2-j_500.webp)
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