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CVE-2021-3997
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-23T20:15:08.670 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:06:21.910

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.

Affected products

systemd_project — systemd

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References

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