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Off-by-one Error The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package systemd-libs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-SYSTEMDLIBS-11452629
  • published5 Aug 2025
  • disclosed8 Jul 2022
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Introduced: 8 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-3821  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd-libs package and not the systemd-libs package as distributed by RHEL.

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.