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        "dateReserved": "2025-02-26T01:49:39.302Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-02-26T01:56:27.026Z",
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuaccess: fix integer overflow on access_ok()\n\nThree architectures check the end of a user access against the\naddress limit without taking a possible overflow into account.\nPassing a negative length or another overflow in here returns\nsuccess when it should not.\n\nUse the most common correct implementation here, which optimizes\nfor a constant 'size' argument, and turns the common case into a\nsingle comparison."
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                            "value": "AV:L - The bug is in arch-specific access_ok() used by syscall copy_to/from_user paths; an attacker needs local ability to invoke syscalls with crafted user pointers and lengths on csky, hexagon, or microblaze.\nAC:L - Triggering only requires passing an address and size that cause addr+size to wrap; no race, probabilistic memory layout, or other condition outside the attacker’s control is needed.\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user can reach access_ok() through ordinary read/write/ioctl and related syscalls that validate user buffers; no root or special capabilities are required.\nUI:N - Exploitation is fully attacker-driven via syscalls and does not require any action by another user.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the local kernel’s security authority (same-host privilege boundary); this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or other cross-authority break.\nC:H - A successful access_ok() bypass lets copy_from_user read kernel addresses as if they were userspace, enabling arbitrary kernel memory disclosure when that data is returned to the attacker.\nI:H - The same bypass lets copy_to_user/clear_user write into kernel virtual addresses, yielding a kernel memory corruption / write primitive usable for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - Walking into invalid or sensitive kernel mappings via the unchecked copy path can oops/panic the kernel, and huge overflowing lengths can also produce fatal DoS behavior."
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