# 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-2021-47261"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:54.025Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:01.751Z"
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-2021-47261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47261"
title: "IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer\n\nThe function init_cq_frag_buf() can be called to initialize the current CQ\nfragments buffer cq-\u003ebuf, or the temporary cq-\u003eresize_buf that is filled\nduring CQ resize operation.\n\nHowever, the offending commit started to use function get_cqe() for\ngetting the CQEs, the issue with this change is that get_cqe() always\nreturns CQEs from cq-\u003ebuf, which leads us to initialize the wrong buffer,\nand in case of enlarging the CQ we try to access elements beyond the size\nof the current cq-\u003ebuf and eventually hit a kernel panic.\n\n [exception RIP: init_cq_frag_buf+103]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbcd8] mlx5_ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc0835d60 [mlx5_ib]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbdb0] ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc05270df [ib_core]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbdc0] llt_rdma_setup_qp at ffffffffc0a6a712 [llt]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbe10] llt_rdma_cc_event_action at ffffffffc0a6b411 [llt]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbe98] llt_rdma_client_conn_thread at ffffffffc0a6bb75 [llt]\n  [ffff9f799ddcbec8] kthread at ffffffffa66c5da1\n  [ffff9f799ddcbf50] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin at ffffffffa6d95ddd\n\nFix it by getting the needed CQE by calling mlx5_frag_buf_get_wqe() that\ntakes the correct source buffer as a parameter."
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