[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Most of the time you can go for months, years, without
patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger. A
recently uncovered security hole in the Linux kernel does deserve
your attention.“Specifically, Earl Chew, a Linux developer, and, at about the
same time, Brad Spengler, creator of the Linux security program
Grsecurity, discovered that there was a possible null pointer error
that could, in theory, enable non-root users grab administrator
privileges. You don’t want that to happen.”