On Feb 11, 2008 10:09 AM, Dominik Paulus <dominik@d-paulus.de> wrote:
Octavio Ruiz wrote:
> Any concert about the Linux Kernel Local Root Exploit as showed in the
> Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure site with id's CVE-2008-0009,
> CVE-2008-0010, CVE-2008-0600?
>
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0009
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0010
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0600
>
> gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources are affected among probably others.

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209460

There's also a quick rundown here:
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/02/critical-linux-kernel-vmsplice-security-issues/