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 x25 protocol (PF_X25) receives only 'odd fixes'. 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> --- I'm somewhat less sure about this one; maybe it's improving? But there is little enough sign of any usefulness after 10 years. There are several X25 dependencies that presumably should be moved too. Ben. 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 a9dd984..1347242 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig @@ -179,5 +179,7 @@ source "net/decnet/Kconfig" source "net/econet/Kconfig" +source "net/x25/Kconfig" + endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD endif # STAGING diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 059c9f1..1d396ba 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ source "net/8021q/Kconfig" source "net/llc/Kconfig" source "net/ipx/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" -source "net/x25/Kconfig" source "net/lapb/Kconfig" source "net/wanrouter/Kconfig" source "net/phonet/Kconfig" -- 1.7.2.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
