Linux kernel built with the Human Interface Device(HID) Bus support(CONFIG_HID) along with the Zeroplus based game controller support(CONFIG_HID_ZEROPLUS) is vulnerable to a heap overflow flaw. It could occur when an HID device sends malicious output report to the kernel driver. A local user with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the kernel resulting in DoS or potential privilege escalation to gain root access via arbitrary code execution.
Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. This issue affects the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue. Note: A user would need physical access to the system in order to exploit this issue.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1002548]
kernel-3.10.11-200.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kernel-3.10.11-100.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1645 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-6 Via RHSA-2013:1527 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1527.html