vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3997: systemd: Uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles when removing files

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 23, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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