On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:51:53 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NAK there are still users and stuff does get fixed. If you don't like it then disable it from config. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
