# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89856"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:29.517Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:53:48.987Z"
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-2026-89856"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89856.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89856"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Clamp MSI-X derived queue counts to avoid truncation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Clamp MSI-X derived queue counts to avoid truncation\n\nha-\u003emsix_count is u16, but ha-\u003emax_req_queues, ha-\u003emax_rsp_queues and\nha-\u003emax_qpairs are u8. Deriving the queue count as\n\"ha-\u003emax_req_queues = ha-\u003emsix_count - 1\" therefore truncates: a board\n(or a misconfigured/malicious hot-plugged device) advertising 257 MSI-X\nvectors yields msix_count - 1 == 256, which truncates to 0. An MSI-X\ncount of 1 zeroes it as well, and in target mode the subsequent\n\"ha-\u003emax_req_queues--\" then underflows 0 to 255.\n\nWhen the count is 0, qla2x00_alloc_queues() calls\nkzalloc_objs(struct req_que *, 0), which returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR. That is\nnot NULL, so the allocation check passes and the following\n\"ha-\u003ereq_q_map[0] = req\" dereferences ZERO_SIZE_PTR, corrupting memory\nor crashing the kernel.\n\nAdd qla_calc_queue_count() to clamp the derived value into\n[1, QLA_MAX_QUEUES - 1] so it always fits in u8 and is never zero, and\nuse it at all three derivation sites (qla25xx_iospace_config(),\nqla83xx_iospace_config() and qla24xx_enable_msix()). Also guard the\ntarget-mode decrement so it cannot reintroduce a zero (which would in\nturn underflow max_qpairs)."
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