# 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-2021-47486"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-22T08:19:36.818Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:37.114Z"
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-2021-47486"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47486.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47486"
title: "riscv, bpf: Fix potential NULL dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv, bpf: Fix potential NULL dereference\n\nThe bpf_jit_binary_free() function requires a non-NULL argument. When\nthe RISC-V BPF JIT fails to converge in NR_JIT_ITERATIONS steps,\njit_data-\u003eheader will be NULL, which triggers a NULL\ndereference. Avoid this by checking the argument, prior calling the\nfunction."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ca6cb5447ceca6a87d6b62c9e5d41042c34f7ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cac6b043cea3e120f4fccec16f7381747cbfdc0d"},{"version":"ca6cb5447ceca6a87d6b62c9e5d41042c34f7ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1b80a5ebe5431caeb20f88c32d4a024777a2d41"},{"version":"ca6cb5447ceca6a87d6b62c9e5d41042c34f7ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27de809a3d83a6199664479ebb19712533d6fd9b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.16","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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