Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] decnet: Move to staging

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:31:31 -0800

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:51:53 +0000
Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]>

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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