Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a patched source package in the making already or should we humble users, in the meantime, take the original patch and apply it, while the "official" thing gets worked out?
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