# 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-2021-47463"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-22T06:23:23.688Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:12.642Z"
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-2021-47463"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47463.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47463"
title: "mm/secretmem: fix NULL page-\u003emapping dereference in page_is_secretmem()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/secretmem: fix NULL page-\u003emapping dereference in page_is_secretmem()\n\nCheck for a NULL page-\u003emapping before dereferencing the mapping in\npage_is_secretmem(), as the page's mapping can be nullified while gup()\nis running, e.g.  by reclaim or truncation.\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000068\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  PGD 0 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n  CPU: 6 PID: 4173897 Comm: CPU 3/KVM Tainted: G        W\n  RIP: 0010:internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x621/0x9d0\n  Code: \u003c48\u003e 81 7a 68 80 08 04 bc 0f 85 21 ff ff 8 89 c7 be\n  RSP: 0018:ffffaa90087679b0 EFLAGS: 00010046\n  RAX: ffffe3f37905b900 RBX: 00007f2dd561e000 RCX: ffffe3f37905b934\n  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffe3f37905b900\n  ...\n  CR2: 0000000000000068 CR3: 00000004c5898003 CR4: 00000000001726e0\n  Call Trace:\n   get_user_pages_fast_only+0x13/0x20\n   hva_to_pfn+0xa9/0x3e0\n   try_async_pf+0xa1/0x270\n   direct_page_fault+0x113/0xad0\n   kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x69/0x680\n   vmx_handle_exit+0xe1/0x5d0\n   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd81/0x1c70\n   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x267/0x670\n   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xa0\n   do_syscall_64+0x56/0x80\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b77ba1e02345bafd703f0d407bdbd88c3be1f767"},{"version":"1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79f9bc5843142b649575f887dccdf1c07ad75c20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.14.15","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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