CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89859

Low risk· EPSS 9%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the scsi qla2xxx driver's qla2x00_do_dport_diagnostics() function allocates the response buffer without zeroing and copies the full structure size back to user space, exposing uninitialized fields and leaking kernel heap contents.

Risk Assessment

May lead to leakage of kernel memory information to user space, constituting a confidentiality breach. Can be exploited to bypass security mitigations (ASLR).

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that uses kzalloc_obj() instead of kmalloc_obj() for buffer allocation. Restrict access to diagnostic functions.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Zero dport diagnostics buffer to avoid info leak qla2x00_do_dport_diagnostics() allocates the qla_dport_diag response buffer with kmalloc_obj() (non-zeroing) and, on success, copies the full sizeof(*dd) back to user space via sg_copy_from_buffer(). The inbound sg_copy_to_buffer() only fills as many bytes as the user request payload provides, and qla26xx_dport_diagnostics() zeroes only dd->buf. The options and unused[] fields are therefore copied out uninitialized, leaking kernel heap contents to user space. Allocate with kzalloc_obj(), matching qla2x00_do_dport_diagnostics_v2().

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