Article note: Shown exploit isn't root (or even arbitrary code execution), but they did cobble a little drawing-a-user-controlled-graphic PoC by doing ROP in the userspace... less than 5 hours after release.
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower.