From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rootlab@huawei.com
Subject: Re: Race Condition Vulnerability in atalk_bind of appletalk module leading to UAF
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 18:42:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231007164227.GB26837@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231007085735.1594417f@hermes.local>
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 08:35:12 +0200
> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sili Luo of Huawei sent this to the security list. Eric and I think it
> > does not deserve special handling from the security team and will be
> > better addressed here.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Willy
> >
> > PS: there are 6 reports for atalk in this series.
>
> Maybe time has come to kill Appletalk like DecNet was removed?
This long painful series could definitely be the best argument for this,
as I doubt anyone still relies on it so much that they're willing to
invest several hours to fix this mess!
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-07 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-07 6:35 Fwd: Race Condition Vulnerability in atalk_bind of appletalk module leading to UAF Willy Tarreau
2023-10-07 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-07 16:42 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2023-10-09 3:16 ` David Ahern
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