Nothing like a little doom and gloom to start the morning! The folks over at PC World think the sky is falling. It is being reported that there is a major exploitable bug in the Linux Kernal. Apparently, the bug is said to affect all versions of the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.24.1. According to PC World, distributions such as Ubuntu, Turbolinux, SuSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, Debian and others are affected. The problems are within three functions in the system call fs/splice.c

At first I as taken by surprise with this news, but then, fortunately a very witty commenter by the name of Evildave came to the rescue.

I read the comment by Evildave and my world view returned to normal. The sky is not in fact falling and all is well in the nix world. It is always funny to see how things are spun in the glorious publishing world. I wonder how much Microsoft paid PC World for this post.