# 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-2021-47611"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-19T14:58:00.362Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:36.304Z"
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-2021-47611"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47611.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47611"
title: "mac80211: validate extended element ID is present"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac80211: validate extended element ID is present\n\nBefore attempting to parse an extended element, verify that\nthe extended element ID is present."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"41cbb0f5a29592874355e4159489eb08337cd50e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03029bb044ccee60adbc93e70713f3ae58abc3a1"},{"version":"41cbb0f5a29592874355e4159489eb08337cd50e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a19cf6844b509d44ecbd536f33d314d91ecdd2b5"},{"version":"41cbb0f5a29592874355e4159489eb08337cd50e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fd214fc7f2ee3a89f91e717e3cfad55f5a27045"},{"version":"41cbb0f5a29592874355e4159489eb08337cd50e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c62b16f98688ae7bc0ab23a6490481f4ce9b3a49"},{"version":"41cbb0f5a29592874355e4159489eb08337cd50e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"768c0b19b50665e337c96858aa2b7928d6dcf756"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"4.19.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.11","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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