# 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-2026-89865"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:35.758Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:53:58.579Z"
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-2026-89865"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89865.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89865"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Zero SFP DMA buffer in FRU/I2C bsg handlers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Zero SFP DMA buffer in FRU/I2C bsg handlers\n\nThe FRU and I2C bsg handlers stage their transfer in a DMA_POOL_SIZE\n(256-byte) bounce buffer obtained from dma_pool_alloc(), which does not\nzero the allocation. They initialize only a few leading bytes before\nhanding the buffer to qla2x00_write_sfp().\n\nqla2x00_write_sfp() can override the transfer length with a user-supplied\nvalue:\n\n\tif (len == 1)\n\t\topt |= BIT_0;\n\tif (opt & BIT_0)\n\t\tlen = *sfp;\n\n*sfp is the first byte of the (user-controlled) payload, so len can grow\nup to 255. The device then DMA-reads len bytes from the 256-byte pool\nbuffer. Since only a small prefix was written\n(e.g. MAX_FRU_SIZE == 36 bytes for a FRU version, one byte for a FRU\nstatus register), the hardware reads past the initialized region and\nwrites up to ~219 bytes of stale DMA-pool heap memory to the device\nflash.\n\nAllocate the buffer with dma_pool_zalloc() in all five FRU/I2C handlers\nso any bytes beyond the initialized data are zero rather than stale heap\ncontents."
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