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>
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:38:19 +0000 (17:38 +0200)
commit052b684be73e3642d5d5822eb0ba82837bdd25e4
tree130f0440760b2dc25cf38d6702a66eb29b425551
parent30a2333c5491aa1394e1c5471dd0555e21795806
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