# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98545"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:13.949Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:28.453Z"
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-2026-98545"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98545.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98545"
title: "ata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nata: libata-scsi: bound the ATA passthru sense descriptor writes\n\nWhen an ATA PASS-THROUGH command to an ATAPI device fails, the sense\nbuffer holds the device's REQUEST SENSE reply, and\nata_scsi_set_passthru_sense_fields() trusts its additional length\nbyte, sb[7], when adding the ATA Status Return descriptor.  A faulty\nor malicious device can use that to make the kernel read and write\npast the 96-byte buffer in three ways:\n\n- scsi_sense_desc_find() is passed sb[7] + 8 as the buffer length, so\n  its clamp against sb[7] does nothing and the walk runs off the end.\n- A type-9 descriptor found near the end is filled in unchecked.\n- A new descriptor at sb[8 + len] needs len + 22 bytes, not len + 14,\n  so len 75..82 writes up to 8 bytes past the end.\n\nReproduced with KASAN under qemu, with the emulated ATAPI REQUEST SENSE\nreply patched:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scsi_sense_desc_find+0x1a5/0x210\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x1a15/0x1a50\n\nBoth are gone with this patch, and a valid descriptor is still filled\nin."
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