Confirm? New local root exploits

[Philip Molter]

Will Backman wrote:
> Anyone tried the recently announced local root exploits against Fedora
> Core?  Do the stack protections and other stuff protect the Fedora
> Kernel?
> I've manage a university shell server with many many student accounts.
> Scared....

Note that if you upgrade, they also made a major change to way the 
kernel handles large memory sizes (the so-called 4g/4g patch was 
dropped).  It probably doesn't affect a university shell server, but it 
sure screwed me over.