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 22278807b3f36dd4519ed39d916b460c50cfc498..1edd2b2cc5c93ae17baa87e650233c5d45c43da8 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ 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 eef0e3f2f25b0972debee403b424891094ef4dea..76e7a1b23ebb38c97985cdb2f3161fe8d0f7ab84 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ 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 cf7d974e0f619a60ef5c6a037705974c622810f2..35b37052252437b8b75e642b9d2ac459648557d0 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ 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)
 {