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        "dateReserved": "2025-12-24T10:30:51.028Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-24T12:09:34.364Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:11:11.441Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/panthor: Prevent potential UAF in group creation\n\nThis commit prevents the possibility of a use after free issue in the\nGROUP_CREATE ioctl function, which arose as pointer to the group is\naccessed in that ioctl function after storing it in the Xarray.\nA malicious userspace can second guess the handle of a group and try\nto call GROUP_DESTROY ioctl from another thread around the same time\nas GROUP_CREATE ioctl.\n\nTo prevent the use after free exploit, this commit uses a mark on an\nentry of group pool Xarray which is added just before returning from\nthe GROUP_CREATE ioctl function. The mark is checked for all ioctls\nthat specify the group handle and so userspace won't be abe to delete\na group that isn't marked yet.\n\nv2: Add R-bs and fixes tags"
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                            "value": "AV:L - The flaw is reached through concurrent GROUP_CREATE and GROUP_DESTROY ioctls on a Panthor DRM device node, making it locally exploitable.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both racing threads, handles are predictably allocated from a 1–128 range, and attacker-controlled queue allocations widen the repeatable race window.\nPR:L - Both ioctls have DRM_RENDER_ALLOW, and low or medium group priorities require no capability; a basic unprivileged process with render-node access suffices.\nUI:N - The attacker directly issues the concurrent ioctls without requiring any action from another user.\nS:U - The corruption affects the host kernel within the same security authority and represents standard local privilege escalation, not a VM or IOMMU-boundary escape.\nC:H - The group can be freed and reclaimed while creation continues dereferencing stale pointers, providing exploitable heap corruption that can enable arbitrary kernel-memory disclosure.\nI:H - Post-free operations write queue pointers, counters, list links, locks, and task metadata into reclaimed memory, enabling arbitrary corruption and potential control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - Concurrent cleanup can free the group and associated resources while they remain in use, allowing repeatable kernel crashes, oopses, or panics."
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