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Both states come from the attacker's own path accesses; neither depends on outside conditions.\nPR:L - Mounting kAFS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN (no FS_USERNS_MOUNT). On a client that already has the /afs dynroot mounted, any unprivileged user can start the volume and server lookups that reach afs_lookup_server() just by accessing /afs/<cell>/... paths.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed; the attacker triggers the lookups and the faulty cleanup with their own filesystem accesses.\nS:U - The memory corruption stays inside the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The cleanup at the out: label kfree()s the existing server's live, refcounted afs_endpoint_state. server->endpoint_state and in-flight probe/rotate operations still reference it, giving a use-after-free of a sprayable kmalloc object that can be reclaimed to leak kernel data.\nI:H - After the bad kfree(), afs_put_endpoint_state() and the probe code keep writing refcounts, flags and the addresses pointer into the freed estate. 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