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, 22 May 2025 18:32:07 +0000 (20:32 +0200)
commiteea9e9b4f1d8289ea342684613cbf44cb9cd9ea4
treecef8ec5264b6a3ae6ff8ae04923ad9c0bb51ffa3
parenta66d42e25f866d40e339ac066148600e63ca3195
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