MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2021-3997

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: 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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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 systemd 239-42 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 systemd 250.3-21 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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