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"value": "AV:L - netdevsim is a purely software-simulated netdev with no physical link; the vulnerable `nsim_poll()` is reached by transmitting on a local netdevsim interface (`nsim_start_xmit` → `nsim_napi_rx` → `napi_schedule`) or via a locally configured netconsole/netpoll. There is no path from unsolicited remote traffic in a default configuration.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls both the trigger and the race: queuing ≥64 skbs on one RX ring makes `nsim_rcv()` return the full budget deterministically, and concurrent `napi_schedule()` from a second thread on another CPU is trivially arranged by multi-threaded sending. No condition depends on state outside the attacker's influence.\nPR:L - Given a netdevsim interface present in the attacker's network namespace (a routine setup on CI/test hosts and in admin-provisioned containers), an ordinary unprivileged local user can drive the RX ring to full budget simply by sending packets — no capability check guards `nsim_start_xmit()` or the NAPI poll path.\nUI:N - The condition is triggered entirely by the attacker's own packet transmission and softirq NAPI processing; no victim action of any kind is needed.\nS:U - The corrupted state (NAPI `state` bits, `poll_list`, GRO lists) and the resulting impact are all within the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Clearing `NAPIF_STATE_SCHED` while still owning the instance destroys NAPI's only mutual-exclusion guarantee (netpoll_poll_lock is a no-op without netpoll), allowing two CPUs to run the same NAPI concurrently over shared `napi->gro` and skb lists; the resulting list corruption/UAF is leverageable to read adjacent kernel memory.\nI:H - A `list_add_tail()` of an already-linked `poll_list` node onto a second CPU's poll list is an unlinked-pointer write into kernel list structures, and concurrent GRO/skb-queue manipulation yields further heap corruption — both classic primitives for controlled kernel memory writes.\nA:H - The reported symptom is a `WARN_ON_ONCE` in `napi_complete_done()` (fatal under `panic_on_warn`), and the NAPI-state desync additionally causes list corruption, `pr_crit` under `CONFIG_DEBUG_NET`, softirq loops, and oopses that take down the machine."
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