# 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-2021-47251"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:47.534Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:50:53.007Z"
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-2021-47251"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47251.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47251"
title: "mac80211: fix skb length check in ieee80211_scan_rx()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac80211: fix skb length check in ieee80211_scan_rx()\n\nReplace hard-coded compile-time constants for header length check\nwith dynamic determination based on the frame type. Otherwise, we\nhit a validation WARN_ON in cfg80211 later.\n\n[style fixes, reword commit message]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cd418ba63f0c2f6157f35a41c9accc6ecb52590a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a1cd67a801cf5ef989c4783e07b86a25b143126"},{"version":"cd418ba63f0c2f6157f35a41c9accc6ecb52590a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1b949c70206178b12027f66edc088d40375b5cb"},{"version":"cd418ba63f0c2f6157f35a41c9accc6ecb52590a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e298aa358f0ca658406d524b6639fe389cb6e11e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.10.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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