# 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-2021-47168"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:16:20.778Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:28.312Z"
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-2021-47168"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47168.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47168"
title: "NFS: fix an incorrect limit in filelayout_decode_layout()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFS: fix an incorrect limit in filelayout_decode_layout()\n\nThe \"sizeof(struct nfs_fh)\" is two bytes too large and could lead to\nmemory corruption.  It should be NFS_MAXFHSIZE because that's the size\nof the -\u003edata[] buffer.\n\nI reversed the size of the arguments to put the variable on the left."
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