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        "datePublished": "2025-03-07T09:10:00.298Z",
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                            "value": "AV:L - The vulnerability is reached through the AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_QUEUE ioctl on the local /dev/kfd character device; there is no network vector.\nAC:L - The attacker controls the trigger — supplying a wptr buffer allocated on a different GPU deterministically hits the device-mismatch error path on multi-GPU systems, or GART/pin exhaustion forces the map failure; no uncontrollable condition is required.\nPR:L - The create-queue ioctl carries flags=0 with no capability check, so any unprivileged local user with render-group access to /dev/kfd (typical on desktops/workstations) can reach it.\nUI:N - Exploitation is a direct ioctl sequence from the attacker's own process with no victim action required.\nS:U - The invalid dereference and any resulting corruption occur within the kernel's own security authority; no privilege/isolation boundary such as a VM or IOMMU domain is crossed.\nC:H - This pointer-vs-pointer-to-pointer type confusion dereferences a fixed userspace-mappable address (0x200000002); on non-SMAP/PAN or nosmap systems the attacker can back that address with a crafted fake amdgpu_bo, yielding attacker-controlled kernel reads.\nI:H - The same crafted-object primitive feeds amdgpu_bo unpin/unref, which perform refcount decrements and destructor dispatch on the attacker-controlled structure, enabling kernel memory corruption and potential control-flow hijack.\nA:H - On the common case (SMAP enabled) the wild dereference of 0x200000002 faults immediately, producing a kernel oops/panic and denial of service."
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