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{
  "finding_id": "DF-4035",
  "status": "not_reproduced",
  "reproduced": 0,
  "impact": "none",
  "confidence": "certain",
  "verdict": "OOM NULL-deref family: radeon_tv_get_modes dereferences drm_cvt_mode() result unchecked (radeon_connectors.c:1148-1150) and radeon_add_common_modes passes a possible NULL to drm_mode_probed_add (:549-550, list_add through NULL). Same class as DF-1343 at distinct sites; triggerable by any connector probe under kernel-memory exhaustion. Unchecked calls also in upstream master. Hardware+OOM-gated: not runnable on this guest.",
  "exploit_chain": "Exhaust kernel heap (unpriv allocation spray) then trigger connector probe -> drm_cvt_mode returns NULL -> panic in tv_get_modes/add_common_modes.",
  "evidence": "VERDICT.md (full path:line trace); run.log (guest trigger run + arithmetic simulation proving the validator math line-exact); build.log (clean guest build); env.txt (guest has no radeon GPU \u2014 hardware-gated); fix.diff (proposed fix, NOT applied to sys/)",
  "kernel_refs": [
    "sys/dev/drm/radeon/radeon_connectors.c:1146-1151",
    "sys/dev/drm/radeon/radeon_connectors.c:549-550"
  ],
  "poc_changes": "Trigger written from scratch for this pack (raw ioctl, no libdrm, self-contained struct defs); arithmetic sims written to verify each wrap/desync claim line-exact; past-IB hypothesis for DF-4029 explicitly tested and killed by resource_index_sim.",
  "attempts": 1,
  "guest_uname": "DragonFly dfbsd 6.5-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0: Thu Jul  2 06:02:54 UTC 2026  root@dfbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC x86_64",
  "runtime_sec": 45,
  "guest_dirty": 0,
  "build_cmd": "./build.sh (guest: cc -O2 -Wall)",
  "run_cmd": "./run.sh",
  "code_hash": null,
  "notes": "Hardware-gated: the audit QEMU guest exposes no radeon DRM device (/dev/dri absent, QEMU virtio display only \u2014 env.txt), so the run-time chain cannot be exercised; classification is not_reproduced at run-time with certain source-level confidence. All findings verified present in upstream Linux master too (cve_match candidates: equivalent).",
  "recommended_fix": "NULL-check both drm_cvt_mode results (see fix.diff).",
  "fix_status": "not_testable",
  "fix_baseline_reproduced": 0,
  "fix_patched_reproduced": 0,
  "fix_verdict": "fix.diff authored against the read-only sys/ tree after source verification; baseline and patched runs require r600/rv770 hardware which the audit guest lacks, so fix validation is not testable here.",
  "fix_evidence": "fix.diff in this pack"
}