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"value": "AV:L - Exploitation requires local write() syscalls on a VFIO live-migration resume fd returned by VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE_MIG_DEVICE_STATE ioctl on an opened QAT VFIO PCI device; there is no network, adjacent-wireless, or physical-device attack path to this code.\nAC:L - An attacker with the migration fd controls both racing writers (e.g., concurrent threads or dup'd fds sharing f_pos) and can repeatedly trigger the TOCTOU window near the buffer end until the overflow succeeds; no uncontrollable victim timing or memory layout is required.\nPR:L - Exploitation requires only local access to an assigned Intel QAT VFIO device migration fd (typical QEMU/cloud/HPC VFIO clients), not real root in the init namespace; capabilities like CAP_NET_ADMIN via user namespaces do not grant this path.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the attacker drives VFIO migration state transitions and concurrent writes to the resume fd programmatically without any separate user or administrator action during exploitation.\nS:U - The flaw corrupts host kernel heap memory from a VFIO client context and does not by itself cross an IOMMU, VM-guest, or other distinct security authority boundary; impact remains host kernel compromise/DoS within the same authority.\nC:H - The race yields an attacker-controlled heap out-of-bounds write past the 4096-byte migration-state kmalloc buffer, which can corrupt adjacent kernel objects and be leveraged for arbitrary kernel memory disclosure, not merely a bounded leak.\nI:H - copy_from_user() writes attacker-controlled data beyond mig_dev->state, enabling heap corruption and potential arbitrary kernel write or code-execution primitives through grooming of adjacent kmalloc objects.\nA:H - Heap corruption from the out-of-bounds write can immediately panic or oops the kernel or destabilize the system even when full exploitation is not attempted, satisfying high availability impact for kernel memory corruption."
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