# 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-2021-47095"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-04T18:10:46.553Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:47:56.919Z"
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-2021-47095"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47095.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47095"
title: "ipmi: ssif: initialize ssif_info-\u003eclient early"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipmi: ssif: initialize ssif_info-\u003eclient early\n\nDuring probe ssif_info-\u003eclient is dereferenced in error path. However,\nit is set when some of the error checking has already been done. This\ncauses following kernel crash if an error path is taken:\n\n[   30.645593][  T674] ipmi_ssif 0-000e: ipmi_ssif: Not probing, Interface already present\n[   30.657616][  T674] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000088\n...\n[   30.657723][  T674] pc : __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0\n[   30.657732][  T674] lr : _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0\n...\n[   30.657772][  T674] Call trace:\n[   30.657775][  T674]  __dev_printk+0x28/0xa0\n[   30.657778][  T674]  _dev_err+0x7c/0xa0\n[   30.657781][  T674]  ssif_probe+0x548/0x900 [ipmi_ssif 62ce4b08badc1458fd896206d9ef69a3c31f3d3e]\n[   30.657791][  T674]  i2c_device_probe+0x37c/0x3c0\n...\n\nInitialize ssif_info-\u003eclient before any error path can be taken. Clear\ni2c_client data in the error path to prevent the dangling pointer from\nleaking."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4436c9149c5d2bc0c49ab57ec85c75ea1c4d61c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8efd6a3391f7b0b19fb0c38e50add06ca30c94af"},{"version":"c4436c9149c5d2bc0c49ab57ec85c75ea1c4d61c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f6ab847461ce7dd89ae9db2dd4658c993355d7c"},{"version":"c4436c9149c5d2bc0c49ab57ec85c75ea1c4d61c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77a7311ca167aa5b7055c549a940a56e73ee5f29"},{"version":"c4436c9149c5d2bc0c49ab57ec85c75ea1c4d61c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34f35f8f14bc406efc06ee4ff73202c6fd245d15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.169","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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