# 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-2026-97532"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:32.582Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:08.333Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97532"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97532.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97532"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Null out freed pointers in qla2x00_mem_alloc() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Null out freed pointers in qla2x00_mem_alloc() error path\n\nWhen qla2x00_mem_alloc() fails, qla2x00_probe_one() jumps to\nprobe_hw_failed and calls qla2x00_mem_free(). Several error labels in\nqla2x00_mem_alloc() freed adapter members (elsrej.c, purex_dma_pool,\nflt, sfp_data, loop_id_map, async_pd, sf_init_cb, ex_init_cb, npiv_info)\nbut left the pointers dangling. qla2x00_mem_free() then freed them a\nsecond time. Worse, for the dma_pool members it issued\ndma_pool_free(ha-\u003es_dma_pool, ...) after s_dma_pool had already been\ndestroyed and set to NULL at fail_s_dma_pool, dereferencing a NULL pool.\n\nClear each freed pointer (and its DMA handle) in the error labels so the\nsubsequent qla2x00_mem_free() skips them."
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