CVE-2021-3997

EPSS 1.6%CWE-674

A flaw was found in systemd. An uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles may lead to a denial of service at boot time when too many nested directories are created in /tmp.

Affected products

n/a · systemd

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024639 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/5b1cf7a9be37e20133c0208005274ce4a5b5c6a1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/2