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At 06:20 PM 11/30/2009, FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:

>A short time ago a "local root" exploit was posted to the full-disclosure
>mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute
>arbitrary code as root.

Yargh. Thank you for catching this.

--Brett