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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-89515

high Nessus Plugin ID 345114

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables() During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310 dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70 ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420 __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740 ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920 scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340
 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0 blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0 blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0 sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 Uninit was created at: __alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80 alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050 blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100 blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0 sg_io+0xad6/0xe20 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 Bytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized Memory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000 When processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist, it is supplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len. These bytes remain uninitialized, which leads to a problem. Extend last_sg->length by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to zero those pad_len bytes.
 sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally, which correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding that crosses a page boundary. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. (CVE-2026-89515)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-89515

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 345114

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_89515.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/12/2026

Updated: 9/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89515

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-89515