CVE-2025-68303

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The optional IRQ must be present, but on an affected deployment the attacker controls repeated command submission.\nPR:L - The PSS telemetry file is created read-only for all users and its call path contains no capability check, allowing an ordinary user to trigger it where debugfs is user-accessible. No namespace-specific capability is required.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires only the attacker's own file operation and completed mailbox interrupt, without action by another user.\nS:U - The corruption occurs within the host kernel and compromises resources governed by that same kernel security authority; it does not inherently cross a VM, IOMMU, or separate sandbox boundary.\nC:H - The bogus completion accesses unrelated global storage and follows invalid wait-list and task pointers. Exploitation of the resulting kernel-memory corruption can provide kernel execution and unrestricted access to confidential memory.\nI:H - complete() increments unrelated memory and mutates a bogus spinlock and wait list; wake and list-deletion operations can produce further attacker-influenced kernel writes and control-flow compromise.\nA:H - The bogus lock and list operations can cause an oops, panic, or hard lockup, while the real completion remains unsignaled. 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