Ludovic Courtes

**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions** Debian GNU/Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.15.1 **Description** The issue affects the Linux kernel and can lead to a denial of service (hang) when running on SPARC architectures. This can occur when a local user executes a "date -s" command, providing invalid sign extended arguments to the get compat timespec function call. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely. **Recommendations** At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.