# 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-2021-47518"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:31.334Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:56:12.796Z"
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-2021-47518"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47518.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47518"
title: "nfc: fix potential NULL pointer deref in nfc_genl_dump_ses_done"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: fix potential NULL pointer deref in nfc_genl_dump_ses_done\n\nThe done() netlink callback nfc_genl_dump_ses_done() should check if\nreceived argument is non-NULL, because its allocation could fail earlier\nin dumpit() (nfc_genl_dump_ses())."
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