CVE-2022-3821

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3821
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3821.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-3821
Downstream
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Published
2022-11-08T22:15:16Z
Modified
2025-09-19T14:06:55.136831Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An off-by-one Error issue was discovered in Systemd in formattimespan() function of time-util.c. An attacker could supply specific values for time and accuracy that leads to buffer overrun in formattimespan(), leading to a Denial of Service.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/systemd/systemd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/systemd/systemd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
9102c625a673a3246d7e73d8737f3494446bad4e

Affected versions

Other

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v243.*

v243.1

Database specific 

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