one shot remote root for linux?

This is one of them mysterious and rare cases where a non router OS vulnerability may affect network operations. Sometimes news finds us in mysterious yet obvious ways. HD Moore (respected security researcher) set a status which I noticed on my twitter: @hdmoore reading through sctp_houdini.c - one-shot remote linux kernel root - http://kernelbof.blogspot.com/ I asked him about it on IM, wondering if it is real: "looks like that but requires a sctp app to be running" Naturally, I retweeted. Signed, @gadievron