CVE-2006-0482 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0482
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Description: Linux kernel 2.6.15.1 and earlier, when running on SPARC architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) via a "date -s" command, which causes invalid sign extended arguments to be provided to the get_compat_timespec function call.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24475 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19374 MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=113861010514065&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=113861287813463&w=2 http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/01/msg00129.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 BID 17216

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