CVE-2026-89852

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Zero mailbox struct in qla2x00_get_firmware_state()

The mbx_cmd_t is allocated on the stack but left uninitialized. qla2x00_mailbox_command() has several early-return paths (PCI permanent failure, device failed, EEH busy, ISP abort pending, mailbox access timeout, purge mbox) that return without writing the input mailbox registers back into mcp->mb[]. qla2x00_get_firmware_state() then unconditionally copies mcp->mb[1..6] (and mb[12]) into the caller's states[] array regardless of the return value.

On such a failure the copied values are uninitialized kernel stack memory, which is then exposed to userspace via the fw_state and mpi_fw_state sysfs handlers. Zero the mailbox struct so a failed query yields deterministic zeroed state instead of leaking stack contents.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < f8fc5cc6b3284506c6ab83c822c48133377668bbaffected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < f29695b1138ae2539c5cd6cdaba9b1b072aaa81aaffected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < 13d645a2cdb224d27205368f3e3c68bb160daf97affected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < 2f847f06bb223aa895eea91fc9e5e2d6314038ebaffected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < 1f49e861c18caf8eef7f0ad9a2c5034f88a6ba79affected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < e6cfb1ee18336aab41a0941d6d3ea5009aaafc05affected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < 9f31de4d07e4cde91dfc24522993a5fbb4d67083affected
LinuxLinux4d4df1932b6b116aecc81039066fec27f2050762 < 9efaa782845b4d5fb3e01242be0d06ebc7428d8faffected
LinuxLinux2.6.26affected
LinuxLinux0 < 2.6.26unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.270 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.221 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.188 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.157 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.110 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.51 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.5 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References