CVE-2026-89864 PUBLISHED

scsi: qla2xxx: Bound i2c->length in I2C bsg handlers

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Bound i2c->length in I2C bsg handlers

struct qla_i2c_access carries a 16-bit length field alongside a fixed 64-byte buffer:

<pre>struct qla_i2c_access { uint16_t device, offset, option, length; uint8_t buffer[0x40]; } __packed; </pre>

qla2x00_write_i2c() and qla2x00_read_i2c() use the user-supplied i2c->length without any bounds check. i2c is overlaid on a 256-byte on-stack buffer and sfp is a 256-byte DMA-pool buffer, so a length up to 65535 overruns both:

  • write: memcpy(sfp, i2c->buffer, i2c->length) over-reads the stack and over-writes the sfp heap buffer, and qla2x00_write_sfp() then DMAs i2c->length bytes out of the 256-byte buffer.
  • read: qla2x00_read_sfp() DMAs i2c->length bytes into the 256-byte sfp, then memcpy(i2c->buffer, sfp, i2c->length) overflows the 64-byte buffer inside the on-stack array.

A caller holding CAP_SYS_RAWIO can use this to corrupt the heap and the kernel stack. Reject requests whose length exceeds the buffer before any copy or DMA transfer in both handlers.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 8f01f886cc5e7bbc16cbf1a9928fdebbc911e973 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 2be39946abcde5a6416fb074ef728429e246a996 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 522d6dcdc645d8f97d6b4cdfd6d8eea307f3ff0e (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 9a756f277eb89f769dbf380f38245c270d31fdb5 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 32d6df14fdab71fe1ba304fd9a0db0411ea2e043 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 97ca58b0fb026799b99e3d552d5f69cf9a3113ad (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 47049fdadc0eaa115e813735b827e1379c0d2cf8 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ebb5d9c69f1f5721f9f6f49e501c674c1e184ae to 0918ee2c0eeb4d7f45b82b3dc11e65c2d9b7ad59 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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