Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:32:36 -0800

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:52:28 +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 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 <[email-masked]>

This I agree with. Probably the Arcnet devices as well.
Most distro's don't enable it anyway.