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CVE-2006-0482

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2006-01-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References