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 862e03493b7edb223f828a2dc27a91bb5a2ab17c..a0be368951b3c55eb035d0ef48113c6b5ec90e34 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -2078,7 +2078,7 @@ 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 f0879295de110a2a256b4857550b128cab9067c5..7227f6c620a04fc96961f276abe74cf8a35c3858 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
+++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c
@@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ 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 b21c2ce4019281342b42a115d9a1c0bfb9a221ba..96719344d71152f5f2e44aa130da1b8fb91d2576 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rose/af_rose.c
+++ b/net/rose/af_rose.c
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ 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)
 {