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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47418"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:04:07.333Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:54:19.276Z"
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-2021-47418"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47418.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47418"
title: "net_sched: fix NULL deref in fifo_set_limit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet_sched: fix NULL deref in fifo_set_limit()\n\nsyzbot reported another NULL deref in fifo_set_limit() [1]\n\nI could repro the issue with :\n\nunshare -n\ntc qd add dev lo root handle 1:0 tbf limit 200000 burst 70000 rate 100Mbit\ntc qd replace dev lo parent 1:0 pfifo_fast\ntc qd change dev lo root handle 1:0 tbf limit 300000 burst 70000 rate 100Mbit\n\npfifo_fast does not have a change() operation.\nMake fifo_set_limit() more robust about this.\n\n[1]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPGD 1cf99067 P4D 1cf99067 PUD 7ca49067 PMD 0\nOops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nCPU: 1 PID: 14443 Comm: syz-executor959 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\nRIP: 0010:0x0\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000e2f7310 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8d6ecc00 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888024c27910 RDI: ffff888071e34000\nRBP: ffff888071e34000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff8fcfb947\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888024c27910\nR13: ffff888071e34018 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88801ef74800\nFS:  00007f321d897700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 00000000722c3000 CR4: 00000000003506e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n fifo_set_limit net/sched/sch_fifo.c:242 [inline]\n fifo_set_limit+0x198/0x210 net/sched/sch_fifo.c:227\n tbf_change+0x6ec/0x16d0 net/sched/sch_tbf.c:418\n qdisc_change net/sched/sch_api.c:1332 [inline]\n tc_modify_qdisc+0xd9a/0x1a60 net/sched/sch_api.c:1634\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x413/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5572\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2504\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340\n netlink_sendmsg+0x86d/0xdb0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1929\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:724\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2409\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2463\n __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2492\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dd7ddc462b9c2d31eb5a9926a2cc63eaa3e9f52"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08d7056e8e250fd2e67dbea5be5fdecdd75bf6b4"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26af64d71b6277841285fa40e3f7164a378dfda9"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d07098f45be868a9cdce6c616563c36c64dbbd87"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c951a3be5e8803e93bb49a0aca0d30457d3c1b67"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acff2d182c0768a713cee77442caeb07668bd68f"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb58cd7991747b5e0b110c98c922d7b0e47a1f14"},{"version":"fb0305ce1b03f6ff17f84f2c63daccecb45f2805","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"560ee196fe9e5037e5015e2cdb14b3aecb1cd7dc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.27","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.27"},{"version":"4.4.289","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.287","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.73","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.12","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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