CVE-2026-97529 PUBLISHED

scsi: qla2xxx: Validate BSG request_len before reading vendor_cmd[]

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Validate BSG request_len before reading vendor_cmd[]

The FC BSG transport allocates job->request via memdup_user() using the exact user-supplied request_len. For FC_BSG_HST_VENDOR, fc_bsg_host_dispatch() only guarantees request_len covers msgcode and vendor_id; it does not account for the vendor_cmd[] flexible array.

qla2xxx then reads the command selector vendor_cmd[0] and, in several sub-handlers, vendor_cmd[1]/[2] or structures overlaid on the vendor command area without verifying request_len. A caller holding CAP_SYS_RAWIO can submit a short request whose vendor_id matches the host, triggering out-of-bounds heap reads (KASAN-detectable, and able to mis-select a command or panic).

Add a central guard in qla2x00_process_vendor_specific() so the selector is always in bounds, restrict the early vendor_cmd[0] read in qla24xx_bsg_request() to sufficiently long vendor messages, and add request_len checks to the sub-handlers that read further: qla24xx_proc_fcp_prio_cfg_cmd(), qla2x00_process_loopback(), qla84xx_reset(), qla84xx_updatefw(), qla2x00_read_optrom(), qla2x00_update_optrom(), qlafx00_mgmt_cmd() and qla28xx_validate_flash_image().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 01e0e15c8b3b32e006e5cccac10c8b377ac3d803 to 740f3458a4798af54aaf8cf63e797d407e8b6d3b (excl.)
  • affected from 01e0e15c8b3b32e006e5cccac10c8b377ac3d803 to f75bff451a2fac5aed82f9641df1e9a42c5a899d (excl.)
  • affected from 01e0e15c8b3b32e006e5cccac10c8b377ac3d803 to 4cf38dd9465736141263ebb63375868311a0ec81 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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