In Linux distributions root privilege escalations are more common than the
people believes but the difference resides in the fact that you can expect a
patch in two or three days (as much) and the idea that I received from the
sentence "Oracle has yet to comment on the reports or say when it plans to fix
the vulnerability. The next scheduled patch release isn't until the middle of
October" is not very comforting. Maybe Oracle have to improve his public
relationships concerning to security issues :).