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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 8, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-38208

CVE-2021-38208

Description

net/nfc/llcp_sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.10 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) by making a getsockname call after a certain type of failure of a bind call.

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