# 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-2021-47623"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-16T11:29:39.071Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:58:05.571Z"
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-2021-47623"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47623.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47623"
title: "powerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap\n\nUnmapping a fixmap entry is done by calling __set_fixmap()\nwith FIXMAP_PAGE_CLEAR as flags.\n\nToday, powerpc __set_fixmap() calls map_kernel_page().\n\nmap_kernel_page() is not happy when called a second time\nfor the same page.\n\n\tWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:194 set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8\n\tCPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty #682\n\tNIP:  c0017cd4 LR: c00187f0 CTR: 00000010\n\tREGS: e1011d50 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty)\n\tMSR:  00029032 \u003cEE,ME,IR,DR,RI\u003e  CR: 42000208  XER: 00000000\n\n\tGPR00: c0165fec e1011e10 c14c0000 c0ee2550 ff800000 c0f3d000 00000000 c001686c\n\tGPR08: 00001000 b00045a9 00000001 c0f58460 c0f50000 00000000 c0007e10 00000000\n\tGPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000\n\tGPR24: 00000000 00000000 c0ee2550 00000000 c0f57000 00000ff8 00000000 ff800000\n\tNIP [c0017cd4] set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8\n\tLR [c00187f0] map_kernel_page+0x9c/0x100\n\tCall Trace:\n\t[e1011e10] [c0736c68] vsnprintf+0x358/0x6c8 (unreliable)\n\t[e1011e30] [c0165fec] __set_fixmap+0x30/0x44\n\t[e1011e40] [c0c13bdc] early_iounmap+0x11c/0x170\n\t[e1011e70] [c0c06cb0] ioremap_legacy_serial_console+0x88/0xc0\n\t[e1011e90] [c0c03634] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x178\n\t[e1011ef0] [c0c0385c] kernel_init_freeable+0xb4/0x250\n\t[e1011f20] [c0007e34] kernel_init+0x24/0x140\n\t[e1011f30] [c0016268] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64\n\tInstruction dump:\n\t7fe3fb78 48019689 80010014 7c630034 83e1000c 5463d97e 7c0803a6 38210010\n\t4e800020 81250000 712a0001 41820008 \u003c0fe00000\u003e 9421ffe0 93e1001c 48000030\n\nImplement unmap_kernel_page() which clears an existing pte."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"265c3491c4bc8d40587996d6ee2f447a7ccfb4f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67baac10dd5ad1e9f50e8f2659984b3b0728d54e"},{"version":"265c3491c4bc8d40587996d6ee2f447a7ccfb4f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43ae0ccc4d2722b833fb59b905af129428e06d03"},{"version":"265c3491c4bc8d40587996d6ee2f447a7ccfb4f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"033fd42c18d9b2121595b6f1e8419a115f9ac5b7"},{"version":"265c3491c4bc8d40587996d6ee2f447a7ccfb4f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aec982603aa8cc0a21143681feb5f60ecc69d718"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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