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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89515" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:59.300Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:06.602Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89515" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89515.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89515" title: "scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables()\n\nDuring fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered:\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310\n __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310\n dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70\n ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420\n __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740\n ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920\n scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40\n blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0\n __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630\n blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340\n __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250\n __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780\n blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0\n blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0\n blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0\n sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20\n scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60\n sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440\n blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0\n x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0\n do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nUninit was created at:\n __alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80\n alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050\n blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100\n blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0\n sg_io+0xad6/0xe20\n scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60\n sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440\n blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0\n x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0\n do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nBytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized\nMemory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000\n\nWhen processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist, it is\nsupplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len. These bytes\nremain uninitialized, which leads to a problem.\n\nExtend last_sg-\u003elength by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to\nzero those pad_len bytes. sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally,\nwhich correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding\nthat crosses a page boundary.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1aa6df61cef1f47f503c3ccf60d08c4dd931fdc1"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6da140ebdfdd6aa3773945f2c0ebba01d2ef33d8"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd2cbe08c6ccba7fc1ddb830653a93bb7e2d833c"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28ed5343666ff424ce5e248fa1c5a402303b4aff"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4353ec7742bdf87dcdde5875270feb3a1982a51"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7143c3f4e5c0a7986733c6f27009274bf6c4264"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fd1cce5018fdcc8d928e00a6a1dd2997d5b9409"},{"version":"40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"626147717bea776b61ed3631d2c26283760c4cc4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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