Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers

Jan Engelhardt
2023-01-11T13:41:19Z

On Wednesday 2022-11-23 13:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
>The Microsoft RNDIS protocol is, as designed, insecure and vulnerable on
>any system that uses it with untrusted hosts or devices. Because the
>protocol is impossible to make secure, just disable all rndis drivers to
>prevent anyone from using them again.
>
>Windows only needed this for XP and newer systems, Windows systems older
>than that can use the normal USB class protocols instead, which do not
>have these problems.

In other news, someone just proposed adding "RNDIS" things to UEFI, so
now the security problem is added right back into machines but at
another layer?!