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>
Sat, 2 Aug 2025 13:13:02 +0000 (15:13 +0200)
commit8f286835c7188b633264b8667543dae2137f2119
tree33aba06a3f970a42d149fdb657ac15db46d7f82d
parent9178f8c1aa2e56e327d933927d7bfd5e8b0c516b
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