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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89859"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:31.554Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:04.067Z"
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-2026-89859"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89859.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89859"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Zero dport diagnostics buffer to avoid info leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Zero dport diagnostics buffer to avoid info leak\n\nqla2x00_do_dport_diagnostics() allocates the qla_dport_diag response\nbuffer with kmalloc_obj() (non-zeroing) and, on success, copies the full\nsizeof(*dd) back to user space via sg_copy_from_buffer(). The inbound\nsg_copy_to_buffer() only fills as many bytes as the user request payload\nprovides, and qla26xx_dport_diagnostics() zeroes only dd-\u003ebuf. The\noptions and unused[] fields are therefore copied out uninitialized,\nleaking kernel heap contents to user space.\n\nAllocate with kzalloc_obj(), matching qla2x00_do_dport_diagnostics_v2()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ec89146215d124c429bff84b498dccdc4919ffa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ecc30066c2284d2ed11bbd576ec97156b384054"},{"version":"ec89146215d124c429bff84b498dccdc4919ffa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5dfc77099c7d9fde9520a229794b0154d7ccccc1"},{"version":"ec89146215d124c429bff84b498dccdc4919ffa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6e2411516bb95e52cb74c9c56b60ad2548a2730"},{"version":"ec89146215d124c429bff84b498dccdc4919ffa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fc03be982763a131913f84fe73b240ae45bca37"},{"version":"ec89146215d124c429bff84b498dccdc4919ffa7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a152edab3854f01dd2daf3eaf8f32cbabdb3834e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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