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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 ++ net/Kconfig | 2 -- net/decnet/Kconfig | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig index 5eafdf4..dd94cb2 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig @@ -175,5 +175,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/intel_sst/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/speakup/Kconfig" +source "net/decnet/Kconfig" + endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD endif # STAGING diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 55fd82e..9e4fc29 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ config BRIDGE_NETFILTER source "net/netfilter/Kconfig" source "net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig" source "net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig" -source "net/decnet/netfilter/Kconfig" source "net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig" endif @@ -201,7 +200,6 @@ source "net/802/Kconfig" source "net/bridge/Kconfig" source "net/dsa/Kconfig" source "net/8021q/Kconfig" -source "net/decnet/Kconfig" source "net/llc/Kconfig" source "net/ipx/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" diff --git a/net/decnet/Kconfig b/net/decnet/Kconfig index 7914fd6..9d17166 100644 --- a/net/decnet/Kconfig +++ b/net/decnet/Kconfig @@ -41,3 +41,6 @@ config DECNET_ROUTER See <file:Documentation/networking/decnet.txt> for more information. +if NETFILTER +source "net/decnet/netfilter/Kconfig" +endif -- 1.7.2.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
