CVE-2006-0482
Publication date 31 January 2006
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
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.