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-2013-0343
George Kargiotakis reported an issue in the temporary address handling
of the IPv6 privacy extensions. Users on the same LAN can cause a denial
of service or obtain access to sensitive information by sending router
advertisement messages that cause temporary address generation to be
disabled.
CVE-2013-2147
Dan Carpenter reported issues in the cpqarray driver for Compaq
Smart2 Controllers and the cciss driver for HP Smart Array controllers allowing users to gain access to sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2013-2889
Kees Cook discovered missing input sanitization in the HID driver for
Zeroplus game pads that could lead to a local denial of service.
CVE-2013-2893
Kees Cook discovered that missing input sanitization in the HID...
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