Out of morbid curiosity:

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:45:17PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>Does anybody have an idea what these idiots are blathering about?
>
>http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/May/1010272.html
>
>I mention this because reading it gives me no idea what vulnerability they're 
>talking about (we use netlink?  Where?  For what?)  It's 2 years old, they 
>apparently never bothered to report it to _us_, they provide no means to ask 
>for more information...
>
>I have no _clue_ what that's supposed to be about...

http://busybox.net/~aldot/bb/SuSE-9.1_busybox-1.00-pre8_PATCHES/busybox-1.00.pre8-netlink.patch

I didn't actually read it, so just for your reference..