cve-2022-3821
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-08 00:00
Modified
2025-05-02 18:12
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.02% (0.02258)
Summary
An off-by-one Error issue was discovered in Systemd in format_timespan() function of time-util.c. An attacker could supply specific values for time and accuracy that leads to buffer overrun in format_timespan(), leading to a Denial of Service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139327Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9102c625a673a3246d7e73d8737f3494446bad4ePatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/23928Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23933Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00036.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVBQC2VLSDVQAPJTEMTREXDL4HYLXG2P/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139327Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9102c625a673a3246d7e73d8737f3494446bad4ePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/23928Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23933Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00036.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVBQC2VLSDVQAPJTEMTREXDL4HYLXG2P/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-15
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a systemd Version: Fixed in systemd v252-rc1
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