# 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-2021-47397"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:53.431Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:38.908Z"
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-2021-47397"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47397.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47397"
title: "sctp: break out if skb_header_pointer returns NULL in sctp_rcv_ootb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: break out if skb_header_pointer returns NULL in sctp_rcv_ootb\n\nWe should always check if skb_header_pointer's return is NULL before\nusing it, otherwise it may cause null-ptr-deref, as syzbot reported:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n  RIP: 0010:sctp_rcv_ootb net/sctp/input.c:705 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:sctp_rcv+0x1d84/0x3220 net/sctp/input.c:196\n  Call Trace:\n  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n   sctp6_rcv+0x38/0x60 net/sctp/ipv6.c:1109\n   ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2e9/0x1ca0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:422\n   ip6_input_finish+0x62/0x170 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:463\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:301 [inline]\n   ip6_input+0x9c/0xd0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:472\n   dst_input include/net/dst.h:460 [inline]\n   ip6_rcv_finish net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:76 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]\n   NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:301 [inline]\n   ipv6_rcv+0x28c/0x3c0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:297"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77bc7dcf0fcc1519341a91788d7a2914fcfddf6d"},{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c630a7b4f9dec63f08bd881ab77984a724a5124"},{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec018021cf445abbe8e2f3e2a7f1dcc813cb8ea1"},{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c6591ae8e63f93c895ad5e2703c36c548aac997"},{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8180611c238e11676612eb2a9828b1c7a3a4d77b"},{"version":"3acb50c18d8d6650f10919464ade4dcdaf41d62f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7e745f8e94492a8ac0b0a26e25f2b19d342918f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"4.14.249","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.71","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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