# 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-2021-47631"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:07.513Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:58:07.851Z"
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-2021-47631"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47631.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47631"
title: "ARM: davinci: da850-evm: Avoid NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nARM: davinci: da850-evm: Avoid NULL pointer dereference\n\nWith newer versions of GCC, there is a panic in da850_evm_config_emac()\nwhen booting multi_v5_defconfig in QEMU under the palmetto-bmc machine:\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020\npgd = (ptrval)\n[00000020] *pgd=00000000\nInternal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.15.0 #1\nHardware name: Generic DT based system\nPC is at da850_evm_config_emac+0x1c/0x120\nLR is at do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1e0\n\nThe emac_pdata pointer in soc_info is NULL because davinci_soc_info only\ngets populated on davinci machines but da850_evm_config_emac() is called\non all machines via device_initcall().\n\nMove the rmii_en assignment below the machine check so that it is only\ndereferenced when running on a supported SoC."
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