CVE-2021-3997

Description

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 Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-674, CWE-674

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/5b1cf7a9be37e20133c0208005274ce4a5b5c6…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/2
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997