# 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-2021-47511"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:26.695Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:56:04.547Z"
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-2021-47511"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47511.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47511"
title: "ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix negative period/buffer sizes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: oss: Fix negative period/buffer sizes\n\nThe period size calculation in OSS layer may receive a negative value\nas an error, but the code there assumes only the positive values and\nhandle them with size_t.  Due to that, a too big value may be passed\nto the lower layers.\n\nThis patch changes the code to handle with ssize_t and adds the proper\nerror checks appropriately."
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