Security Advisory

CVE-2006-0482

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-01-31 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 16:34:14
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.