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>
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:13:16 +0000 (09:13 +0200)
commitf192d7c205f33eb90dc505aa7096a836907ac272
treed65179d4f90bf670e824df378e8bb528513e64ec
parent999ed1bb7619bf91d9c661832c76a3ac9be7e6c3
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