Debian 7.0 DSA-2669-1 Moderate: Kernel Denial of Service Issues

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead
to a denial of service, information leak or privilege escalation. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2013-0160

vladz reported a timing leak with the /dev/ptmx character device. A local
user could use this to determine sensitive information such as password
length.

CVE-2013-1796

Andrew Honig of Google reported an issue in the KVM subsystem. A user in
a guest operating system could corrupt kernel memory, resulting in a
denial of service.

CVE-2013-1929

Oded Horovitz and Brad Spengler reported an issue in the device driver for
Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet. Users with the ability to attach
untrusted devices can create an overflow condition, resulting in a denial
of service or elevated privileges.

CVE-2013-1979

Andy Lutomirski reported an issue in the socket level control message
processing subsystem. Local users maybe ...