Not often you see this ... got to admire their openness, and for providing an immediate fix. Some groups like to hide this kind of stuff (Apple *cough*), glad to see the Linux folk are in the same boat as Microsoft and have decided not to cover stuff up (Apple *cough*).

Seems there is a linux kernel exploit doing the rounds which is easily induced.

Linux NULL pointer dereference due to incorrect proto_ops initializations (CVE-2009-2692)

http://blog.cr0.org/2009/08/linux-null-pointer-dereference-due-to.html

Had to laugh when I read this comment:

I'm safe, I run Windows

Here is the patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e694958388c50148389b0e9b9e9e8945cf0f1b98 (posted by the great kernel writer himself Linus Torvolds!)

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2009/08/14/one-for-the-memory-book-linux-kernel-open-to-exploitation.aspx