# 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-2021-47542"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:48.578Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:56:40.691Z"
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-2021-47542"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47542.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47542"
title: "net: qlogic: qlcnic: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in qlcnic_83xx_add_rings()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qlogic: qlcnic: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in qlcnic_83xx_add_rings()\n\nIn qlcnic_83xx_add_rings(), the indirect function of\nahw-\u003ehw_ops-\u003ealloc_mbx_args will be called to allocate memory for\ncmd.req.arg, and there is a dereference of it in qlcnic_83xx_add_rings(),\nwhich could lead to a NULL pointer dereference on failure of the\nindirect function like qlcnic_83xx_alloc_mbx_args().\n\nFix this bug by adding a check of alloc_mbx_args(), this patch\nimitates the logic of mbx_cmd()'s failure handling.\n\nThis bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs\ndifferential checking to identify inconsistent security operations\n(e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the\ninconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or\nthe callers, so they constitute bugs.\n\nNote that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false\npositive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed\nthe bug.\n\nBuilds with CONFIG_QLCNIC=m show no new warnings, and our\nstatic analyzer no longer warns about this code."
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