I hope you are all aware of this kernel bug that can give root privilege:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Hole-in-the-Linux-kernel-allows-root-access-850016.html

This exploit will be fixed starting with kernels 2.6.32 and up

An exploit might possibly be released today, so you might want to read 
these instructions (for Debian):

http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr

you can set the problamatic value to something other than 0 with:

sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr="0"

This will break the following packages (according to the debian Docs):
-Dosemu running as user (other than root)
-Wine with win16 binaries
-Bitbake
-qemu running as user (other than root)

David Montminy
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