hamradio: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 4 Aug 2019 23:29:11 +0000 (00:29 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:07:45 +0000 (17:07 +0200)
commiteb8b482e8368d2e9333392ec9738f423a93bd6d1
tree466c6e7658cfd21bdc8851724f4e4254655ea90e
parent4d1a800ae00de41f4ec2d34cd5c8a72cff027a37
hamradio: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits

Forwarded: not-needed

We can mitigate the effect of vulnerabilities in obscure protocols by
preventing unprivileged users from loading the modules, so that they
are only exploitable on systems where the administrator has chosen to
load the protocol.

The 'ham' radio protocols (ax25, netrom, rose) are not actively
maintained or widely used.  Therefore disable auto-loading.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name hamradio-disable-auto-loading-as-mitigation-against-local-exploits.patch
net/ax25/af_ax25.c
net/netrom/af_netrom.c
net/rose/af_rose.c