Published: 23/08/2022 Updated: 03/05/2023

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 0

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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #1003467 systemd: CVE-2021-3997: Uncontrolled recursion in systemd's systemd-tmpfiles Package: src:systemd; Maintainer for src:systemd is Debian systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 1 ...

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 ...

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 (CVE-2021-3997) ...

ALAS-2022-219 Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-219 Advisory Release Date: 2022-12-06 16:42 Pacific ...

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 (CVE-2021-3997) ...

Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing

oss-sec mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    Re: CVE-2021-3997: Uncontrolled recursion in systemd's systemd-tmpfiles   ...

oss-sec mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    CVE-2021-44731: Race condition in snap-confine's setup_private_mount()   ...

oss-sec mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    Re: CVE-2021-44731: Race condition in snap-confine's setup_private_mount()  <!--X-Head-of-Message-- ...

CWE-674 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3997 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/5b1cf7a9be37e20133c0208005274ce4a5b5c6a1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024639 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/2 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003467 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-23-348-10 https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2022/ALAS-2022-052.html

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