# 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-2021-47501"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:01:49.040Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:55:52.335Z"
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-2021-47501"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47501.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47501"
title: "i40e: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc\n\nWhen trying to dump VFs VSI RX/TX descriptors\nusing debugfs there was a crash\ndue to NULL pointer dereference in i40e_dbg_dump_desc.\nAdded a check to i40e_dbg_dump_desc that checks if\nVSI type is correct for dumping RX/TX descriptors."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"02e9c290814cc143ceccecb14eac3e7a05da745e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5b7fb2198abc50058f1a29c395b004f76ab1c83"},{"version":"02e9c290814cc143ceccecb14eac3e7a05da745e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16431e442db248ecd8aa9457cf0a656f1885f56e"},{"version":"02e9c290814cc143ceccecb14eac3e7a05da745e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23ec111bf3549aae37140330c31a16abfc172421"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"5.10.85","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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