# 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-2021-47559"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:12:48.675Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:24.200Z"
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-2021-47559"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47559.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47559"
title: "net/smc: Fix NULL pointer dereferencing in smc_vlan_by_tcpsk()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: Fix NULL pointer dereferencing in smc_vlan_by_tcpsk()\n\nCoverity reports a possible NULL dereferencing problem:\n\nin smc_vlan_by_tcpsk():\n6. returned_null: netdev_lower_get_next returns NULL (checked 29 out of 30 times).\n7. var_assigned: Assigning: ndev = NULL return value from netdev_lower_get_next.\n1623                ndev = (struct net_device *)netdev_lower_get_next(ndev, &lower);\nCID 1468509 (#1 of 1): Dereference null return value (NULL_RETURNS)\n8. dereference: Dereferencing a pointer that might be NULL ndev when calling is_vlan_dev.\n1624                if (is_vlan_dev(ndev)) {\n\nRemove the manual implementation and use netdev_walk_all_lower_dev() to\niterate over the lower devices. While on it remove an obsolete function\nparameter comment."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cb9d43f6775457cac75544bc4197f26ac2b6f294","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c94cbd262b6aa3b54d73a1ed1f9c0d19df57f4ff"},{"version":"cb9d43f6775457cac75544bc4197f26ac2b6f294","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb851d0fb02547d03cd40106b5f2391c4fed6ed1"},{"version":"cb9d43f6775457cac75544bc4197f26ac2b6f294","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"587acad41f1bc48e16f42bb2aca63bf323380be8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.6","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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