Depends on use, but I wouldn't be concerned. The attacker needs a local account to escalate their privilege. If you store important data and a bunch of people have access then I'd probably have concern but you can always compile the kernel yourself if the update isn't available using apt-get.
[–] homosexuals_are_gay 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So what does this mean for the casual Ubuntu user?
[–] brandon [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Depends on use, but I wouldn't be concerned. The attacker needs a local account to escalate their privilege. If you store important data and a bunch of people have access then I'd probably have concern but you can always compile the kernel yourself if the update isn't available using apt-get.