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 bb222b882b6776481a17c9a4cc9ed6d97150c986..266a81b45528af18a08c99200a3cce65bb9f847e 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1988,7 +1988,7 @@ 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 58d5373c513c7999bd73813eafd80c8abad87dc4..a822a2ca52a1cd088622dc472fdeddf0067dd30d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ 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 6a0df7c8a939e4976aa2815127885e127dd864fc..31c1d1e472ab9fa8d72ee591ddd4b060afd35c3f 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ 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)
 {