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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47399" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:54.714Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:53:56.325Z" 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-2021-47399" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47399.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47399" title: "ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ixgbe_xdp_setup" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ixgbe_xdp_setup\n\nThe ixgbe driver currently generates a NULL pointer dereference with\nsome machine (online cpus \u003c 63). This is due to the fact that the\nmaximum value of num_xdp_queues is nr_cpu_ids. Code is in\n\"ixgbe_set_rss_queues\"\".\n\nHere's how the problem repeats itself:\nSome machine (online cpus \u003c 63), And user set num_queues to 63 through\nethtool. Code is in the \"ixgbe_set_channels\",\n\tadapter-\u003ering_feature[RING_F_FDIR].limit = count;\n\nIt becomes 63.\n\nWhen user use xdp, \"ixgbe_set_rss_queues\" will set queues num.\n\tadapter-\u003enum_rx_queues = rss_i;\n\tadapter-\u003enum_tx_queues = rss_i;\n\tadapter-\u003enum_xdp_queues = ixgbe_xdp_queues(adapter);\n\nAnd rss_i's value is from\n\tf = &adapter-\u003ering_feature[RING_F_FDIR];\n\trss_i = f-\u003eindices = f-\u003elimit;\n\nSo \"num_rx_queues\" \u003e \"num_xdp_queues\", when run to \"ixgbe_xdp_setup\",\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c adapter-\u003enum_rx_queues; i++)\n\t\tif (adapter-\u003exdp_ring[i]-\u003exsk_umem)\n\nIt leads to panic.\n\nCall trace:\n[exception RIP: ixgbe_xdp+368]\nRIP: ffffffffc02a76a0 RSP: ffff9fe16202f8d0 RFLAGS: 00010297\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001c RDI: ffffffffa94ead90\nRBP: ffff92f8f24c0c18 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000\nR10: ffff9fe16202f830 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff92f8f24c0000\nR13: ffff9fe16202fc01 R14: 000000000000000a R15: ffffffffc02a7530\nORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018\n 7 [ffff9fe16202f8f0] dev_xdp_install at ffffffffa89fbbcc\n 8 [ffff9fe16202f920] dev_change_xdp_fd at ffffffffa8a08808\n 9 [ffff9fe16202f960] do_setlink at ffffffffa8a20235\n10 [ffff9fe16202fa88] rtnl_setlink at ffffffffa8a20384\n11 [ffff9fe16202fc78] rtnetlink_rcv_msg at ffffffffa8a1a8dd\n12 [ffff9fe16202fcf0] netlink_rcv_skb at ffffffffa8a717eb\n13 [ffff9fe16202fd40] netlink_unicast at ffffffffa8a70f88\n14 [ffff9fe16202fd80] netlink_sendmsg at ffffffffa8a71319\n15 [ffff9fe16202fdf0] sock_sendmsg at ffffffffa89df290\n16 [ffff9fe16202fe08] __sys_sendto at ffffffffa89e19c8\n17 [ffff9fe16202ff30] __x64_sys_sendto at ffffffffa89e1a64\n18 [ffff9fe16202ff38] do_syscall_64 at ffffffffa84042b9\n19 [ffff9fe16202ff50] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe at ffffffffa8c0008c\n\nSo I fix ixgbe_max_channels so that it will not allow a setting of queues\nto be higher than the num_online_cpus(). And when run to ixgbe_xdp_setup,\ntake the smaller value of num_rx_queues and num_xdp_queues." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4a9b32f30f805ca596d76605903a48eab58e0b88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20f6c4a31a525edd9ea6243712b868ba0e4e331e"},{"version":"4a9b32f30f805ca596d76605903a48eab58e0b88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2744341dd52e935344ca1b4bf189ba0d182a3e8e"},{"version":"4a9b32f30f805ca596d76605903a48eab58e0b88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"513e605d7a9ce136886cb42ebb2c40e9a6eb6333"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.0"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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