CVE-2021-47501

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47501
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-47501.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-47501
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Published
2024-05-24T15:15:10Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:28Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i40e: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i40edbgdump_desc

When trying to dump VFs VSI RX/TX descriptors using debugfs there was a crash due to NULL pointer dereference in i40edbgdumpdesc. Added a check to i40edbgdumpdesc that checks if VSI type is correct for dumping RX/TX descriptors.

References

Affected packages