The recipient of the hatorihanzo.c then tried to backdoor the kernel after first owning the CVS server and subsequently getting root on it.
The hatorihanzo exploit was left on the kernel.org server, but encrypted with an (at the time) popular ELF encrypting tool. Ironically the author of that same tool was on the forensic team and managed to crack the password, which turned out to be a really lame throwaway password.
And that's the story of how two fine 0-days were killed in the blink of an eye.
(The other funny kernel.org story is when a Google security researcher found his own name in the master boot record of a misbehaving server.)
Do you have a link to this story? I tried googling but couldn't find it