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 <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 ++ net/Kconfig | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig index dd94cb2..a9dd984 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig @@ -177,5 +177,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/speakup/Kconfig" source "net/decnet/Kconfig" +source "net/econet/Kconfig" + endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD endif # STAGING diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 9e4fc29..059c9f1 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ source "net/ipx/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" source "net/x25/Kconfig" source "net/lapb/Kconfig" -source "net/econet/Kconfig" source "net/wanrouter/Kconfig" source "net/phonet/Kconfig" source "net/ieee802154/Kconfig" -- 1.7.2.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
