# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47055"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-29T22:37:30.071Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:45:45.258Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47055"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47055.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47055"
title: "mtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls\n\nMEMLOCK, MEMUNLOCK and OTPLOCK modify protection bits. Thus require\nwrite permission. Depending on the hardware MEMLOCK might even be\nwrite-once, e.g. for SPI-NOR flashes with their WP# tied to GND. OTPLOCK\nis always write-once.\n\nMEMSETBADBLOCK modifies the bad block table."
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