From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:32:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101122203236.029c86e3@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290484348.6770.1329.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:52:28 +0000
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
> implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
> service or privilege escalation.
>
> The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained. There appear to be
> no published applications for it, and it has never progressed beyond
> 'experimental' status.
>
> This protocol generally should not be enabled by distributions, since
> the cost of a security flaw affecting all installed systems presumably
> outweighs the benefit to the few (if any) legitimate users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
This I agree with. Probably the Arcnet devices as well.
Most distro's don't enable it anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 3:52 [PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging Ben Hutchings
2010-11-23 4:32 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-11-24 18:04 ` Greg KH
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