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                            "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached only via local syscalls on the AMD XDNA DRM accel render node (open, DRM_IOCTL_AMDXDNA_CREATE_BO/EXEC_CMD, mmap/munmap) in drivers/accel/amdxdna; there is no network-facing handler.\nAC:L - The UAF is a mmap/munmap versus deferred amdxdna_umap_release/aie2_populate_range race; a local attacker controls both sides with concurrent threads and can reliably trigger MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP while work still holds a stale vma pointer.\nPR:L - All vulnerable ioctls use DRM_AUTH (flag 0) and only DRM_ROOT_ONLY SET_STATE is excluded; exploitation needs local access to the render node, which unprivileged users typically have via the render group, not real root.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the attacker opens the device, imports/maps buffers, and races munmap or command submission in their own process to hit the freed VMA.\nS:U - Impact is kernel heap corruption and privilege escalation within the host kernel via a local DRM client; it does not cross a VM, container, or IOMMU security boundary.\nC:H - Use-after-free of a freed vm_area_struct and vm_file in amdxdna_umap_release (and stale vma reads in aie2_populate_range) can expose adjacent kernel memory and be weaponized for arbitrary kernel read primitives.\nI:H - UAF on vma/vm_file during mapping_clear_unevictable enables corrupting kernel objects and control data, supporting heap grooming and arbitrary kernel write or code execution for local privilege escalation.\nA:H - Dereferencing a freed VMA in kernel context can cause oops/panic or wedged NPU workloads; UAF in this path is independently sufficient for complete local denial of service even if exploitation fails."
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