Debian Security Advisory DSA 1017-1 (kernel-source-2.6.8)

The remote host is missing an update to kernel-source-2.6.8 announced via advisory DSA 1017-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb10171.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1017-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2006-0482

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 getcompattimespec function call...

CVE-2006-0482

CVE-2006-0482 affects Linux kernel 2.6.x on SPARC; get_compat_timespec() sanitization is insufficient, enabling local denial of service (hang) via date -s. Debian DSAs document a fix in kernel-source-2.6.8 packages (e.g., 2.6.8-16sarge2) and kernel upgrades; systems should upgrade and reboot to m...