cve-2021-3997
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:16
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.01% (0.01561)
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024639Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/5b1cf7a9be37e20133c0208005274ce4a5b5c6a1Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024639Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/5b1cf7a9be37e20133c0208005274ce4a5b5c6a1Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a systemd Version: Fixed in v251-rc1
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