# 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-2021-47650"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:17.052Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:58:36.267Z"
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-2021-47650"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47650.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47650"
title: "ASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer\n\nThere is one call trace that snd_soc_register_card()\n-\u003esnd_soc_bind_card()-\u003esoc_init_pcm_runtime()\n-\u003esnd_soc_dai_compress_new()-\u003esnd_soc_new_compress().\nIn the trace the 'codec_dai' transfers from card-\u003edai_link,\nand we can see from the snd_soc_add_pcm_runtime() in\nsnd_soc_bind_card() that, if value of card-\u003edai_link-\u003enum_codecs\nis 0, then 'codec_dai' could be null pointer caused\nby index out of bound in 'asoc_rtd_to_codec(rtd, 0)'.\nAnd snd_soc_register_card() is called by various platforms.\nTherefore, it is better to add the check in the case of misusing.\nAnd because 'cpu_dai' has already checked in soc_init_pcm_runtime(),\nthere is no need to check again.\nAdding the check as follow, then if 'codec_dai' is null,\nsnd_soc_new_compress() will not pass through the check\n'if (playback + capture != 1)', avoiding the leftover use of\n'codec_dai'."
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