VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-0482

CVSS score2.1 LOW
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-01-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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