National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0482

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0418

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0418

External Source: MLIST

Name: [linux-sparc] 20060130 Re: Attempts to set date with 'date -s' hang the machine

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=113861287813463&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [linux-sparc] 20060130 Attempts to set date with 'date -s' hang the machine

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=113861010514065&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [debian-sparc] 20060128 `date -s' on sparc64

Hyperlink:http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/01/msg00129.html

External Source: XF

Name: kernel-date-s-dos(24475)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24475

External Source: BID

Name: 17216

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17216

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1017

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19374

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19374