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 1/3] decnet: Move to staging
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:31:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101122203131.7cbd604b@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290484313.6770.1328.camel@localhost>
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:51:53 +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 decnet protocol (PF_DECnet) is unmaintained. Since 2.6.12-rc2 the
> only changes appear to be adjustments for net API changes and fixes
> for bugs found by inspection.
>
> 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>
NAK there are still users and stuff does get fixed.
If you don't like it then disable it from config.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 3:51 [PATCH 1/3] decnet: Move to staging Ben Hutchings
2010-11-23 4:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-11-23 5:19 ` David Miller
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