# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47202"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-10T18:56:36.408Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:49:57.314Z"
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-2021-47202"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47202.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47202"
title: "thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions\n\nof_parse_thermal_zones() parses the thermal-zones node and registers a\nthermal_zone device for each subnode. However, if a thermal zone is\nconsuming a thermal sensor and that thermal sensor device hasn't probed\nyet, an attempt to set trip_point_*_temp for that thermal zone device\ncan cause a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it.\n\n console:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone87 # echo 120000 \u003e trip_point_0_temp\n ...\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020\n ...\n Call trace:\n  of_thermal_set_trip_temp+0x40/0xc4\n  trip_point_temp_store+0xc0/0x1dc\n  dev_attr_store+0x38/0x88\n  sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0\n  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0\n  vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368\n  ksys_write+0x7c/0xec\n  __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30\n  el0_svc_common.llvm.7279915941325364641+0xbc/0x1bc\n  do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0\n  el0_svc+0x14/0x24\n  el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xec\n  el0_sync+0x1c0/0x200\n\nWhile at it, fix the possible NULL pointer dereference in other\nfunctions as well: of_thermal_get_temp(), of_thermal_set_emul_temp(),\nof_thermal_get_trend()."
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