linux/debian/patches/debian/decnet-Disable-auto-loading...

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From 0061a6e7c7e5fef1d257cb2c2d9180f655ea5c1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:24:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] decnet: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
service or privilege escalation. We can mitigate the effect of any
remaining vulnerabilities in such 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 'decnet' protocol is unmaintained and of mostly historical
interest, and the user-space support package 'dnet-common' loads the
module explicitly. Therefore disable auto-loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
net/decnet/af_decnet.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
index 7a58c87..ed9e2b0 100644
--- a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
+++ b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
@@ -2358,7 +2358,7 @@ void dn_unregister_sysctl(void);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("The Linux DECnet Network Protocol");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Linux DECnet Project Team");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_DECnet);
+/* MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_DECnet); */
static char banner[] __initdata = KERN_INFO "NET4: DECnet for Linux: V.2.5.68s (C) 1995-2003 Linux DECnet Project Team\n";
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