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

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index d6f9fae06a9d8139ec0505358327e3876af228ae..baebc2f3dafc950a9eb37e92eeedd1eea9839d94 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -2066,7 +2066,7 @@ module_init(ax25_init);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("The amateur radio AX.25 link layer protocol");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_AX25);
+/* MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_AX25); */
 
 static void __exit ax25_exit(void)
 {

diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
index 6ee148f0e6d0425614518957dac2f58320d46b01..fa735b53b439dd58976ebe6610fa2a143eded2d8 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_ndevs, "number of NET/ROM devices");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("The amateur radio NET/ROM network and transport layer protocol");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_NETROM);
+/* MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_NETROM); */
 
 static void __exit nr_exit(void)
 {

diff --git a/net/rose/af_rose.c b/net/rose/af_rose.c
index 59050caab65c8b7e49d5d928bcd643ed7b803809..9624989a5bdcc2a6b7c21bd355ab3e0dc89da13e 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(rose_ndevs, "number of ROSE devices");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("The amateur radio ROSE network layer protocol");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_ROSE);
+/* MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_ROSE); */
 
 static void __exit rose_exit(void)
 {