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"value": "AV:A - Exploitation requires sending 802.11 frames over WiFi to a victim using an EDMA-capable ath9k device (routers, embedded APs, laptops); TX completion interrupts from that traffic reach ath_tx_edma_tasklet() via ath_isr/ath9k_interrupt.\nAC:L - An adjacent attacker can repeatedly induce TX completions and error/status conditions with crafted or high-volume 802.11 traffic; they control timing and load on both sides of the race, making invalid firmware qid values (10-15) reachable without conditions outside attacker influence.\nPR:N - No local account or kernel privileges are required; unauthenticated adjacent WiFi frames (probes, data, deauth/flood) cause the victim radio to transmit and process firmware TX status reports on the interrupt path.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is needed beyond the device having WiFi active, which is the normal operating state for routers, phones, and IoT APs using ath9k hardware.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel memory corruption and privilege escalation or denial of service on the affected host; it does not cross VM, container, or IOMMU security boundaries.\nC:H - Out-of-bounds indexing of sc->tx.txq[ts.qid] reads adjacent ath_softc/ath_tx fields as struct ath_txq (spinlocks, list heads, DMA metadata), constituting an unbounded OOB kernel memory read exploitable for information disclosure.\nI:H - The OOB txq pointer is dereferenced for spin_lock_bh, list_head manipulation, and ath_tx_process_buffer(), writing through misaligned kernel structures and enabling heap corruption and potential arbitrary code execution.\nA:H - Locking and list operations on memory interpreted as the wrong ath_txq can cause kernel oops, panic, or hang, and repeated adjacent triggering can sustain denial of service on the wireless host."
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