There are three issues in vmsplice; two were published on Friday and had an upstream fix, CVE-2008-0009 and CVE-2008-0010: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8811930dc74a503415b35c4a79d14fb0b408a361 The last one was a varient of one that was fixed which was public on Saturday when a exploit was published. CVE-2008-0600. No upstream patch yet, some discussion here: http://marc.info/?t=120263655300003&r=1&w=2 All the issues will affect f7,f8,f9 kernels. Thanks, Mark -- Mark J Cox / Red Hat Security Response Team