# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89863"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:34.377Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:53:56.648Z"
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-2026-89863"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89863.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89863"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: edif: Fix NULL pointer deref in RX SA delete check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: edif: Fix NULL pointer deref in RX SA delete check\n\nqla_chk_edif_rx_sa_delete_pending() obtains the SCSI command via\nGET_CMD_SP(sp) and immediately dereferences cmd-\u003esc_data_direction.\nThat command pointer can be NULL: the firmware may post a status\ncompletion for a command that has already been returned or aborted.  The\ncaller qla2x00_status_entry() acknowledges this on the very same status\npath, re-fetching GET_CMD_SP(sp) and bailing out with the \"Command\nalready returned\" message when it is NULL -- but that check runs only\nafter qla_chk_edif_rx_sa_delete_pending() has already dereferenced the\npointer, so a NULL cmd crashes the kernel in interrupt context.\n\nReturn early when cmd is NULL, before touching cmd-\u003esc_data_direction."
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