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Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026Release Notes
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- 6.6.157.1-1
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-89845. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Avoid req_q_map double-read in qla2x00_error_entry()
qla2x00_error_entry() reads ha->req_q_map[que] twice: once for the NULL check and again when assigning it to req. The map slot is cleared by qla25xx_free_req_que() (ha->req_q_map[que_id] = NULL under mq_lock) during queue teardown, while the response-queue interrupt that drives qla2x00_error_entry() is still registered (the IRQ is released later in qla25xx_free_rsp_que()).
If the slot is set to NULL between the two reads, req becomes NULL and is dereferenced.
Read the slot once into req and NULL-check the local before use. mq_lock is a mutex and cannot be taken from interrupt context, so the single read plus local check is the appropriate fix for the reported NULL dereference.
Source: NVD