# 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-2021-47179"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-25T09:16:28.787Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:31.594Z"
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-2021-47179"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47179.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47179"
title: "NFSv4: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSv4: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return()\n\nCommit de144ff4234f changes _pnfs_return_layout() to call\npnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return() passing NULL as the struct\npnfs_layout_range argument. Unfortunately,\npnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return() doesn't check if we have a value here\nbefore dereferencing it, causing an oops.\n\nI'm able to hit this crash consistently when running connectathon basic\ntests on NFS v4.1/v4.2 against Ontap."
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