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        "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.031Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-08-22T16:02:54.362Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:03:48.256Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix `dmi_system_id` array\n\nAdd missing empty member to `awcc_dmi_table`."
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                            "value": "AV:L - The defect is in `__init` code of a locally-loaded platform driver reached only through module load/boot on the affected hardware; there is no network, adjacent, or remote-peer input path into `dmi_first_match(awcc_dmi_table)`. Local access is the highest defensible vector since module loading and module-parameter control are local operations.\nAC:L - The out-of-bounds walk happens deterministically every time `alienware_wmax_wmi_init()` runs on a machine exposing WMAX_CONTROL_GUID — no race to win, no memory-layout grooming, and the driver config is default-enabled in distro kernels. Nothing about triggering it depends on conditions outside the attacker's reach.\nPR:L - The over-read executes as part of normal module initialization on affected systems, so it occurs without any privileged action, and consistent with prior kernel CNA scoring of missing-terminator OOB reads (CVE-2025-68195) no elevated privilege is credited. Low is chosen over High per the higher-severity-when-uncertain rule.\nUI:N - The table walk runs automatically during driver init at boot via udev autoload; no victim must open a file, mount anything, or take any other action.\nS:U - The out-of-bounds access and any resulting corruption stay entirely within the kernel's own security authority — no hypervisor, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The read is unbounded rather than a few stray bytes: it walks arbitrarily far past the array in `.init.rodata` and, via a 7-bit `slot` value up to 127 indexing the 23-element `dmi_ident[]`, pulls a value from adjacent kernel static data and dereferences it as a string pointer, exposing arbitrary kernel memory to the matching logic.\nI:N - No attacker-controlled write primitive exists — the only writes through the garbage `awcc` pointer are fixed `true` bytes gated behind root-only, non-default `module_param_unsafe` force_* parameters, to an address the attacker cannot steer.\nA:H - Dereferencing an out-of-bounds `dmi_ident[]` entry as a string pointer, and later dereferencing the bogus `driver_data` value cached in the global `awcc`, readily oopses the kernel during boot-time driver initialization; KASAN builds report the out-of-bounds access outright."
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