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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:40:33 +0100
From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@...en-communications.fr>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers
On 23/11/2022 13:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The Microsoft RNDIS protocol is, as designed, insecure and vulnerable on
> any system that uses it with untrusted hosts or devices. Because the
> protocol is impossible to make secure, just disable all rndis drivers to
> prevent anyone from using them again.
>
> Windows only needed this for XP and newer systems, Windows systems older
> than that can use the normal USB class protocols instead, which do not
> have these problems.
>
> Android has had this disabled for many years so there should not be any
> real systems that still need this.
I kind of disagree here. I have seen plenty of android devices that only
support rndis for connection sharing, including my android 11 phone
released in Q3 2020. I suspect the qualcomm's BSP still enable it by
default.
There are also probably cellular dongles that uses rndis by default.
Maybe ask the ModemManager people ?
I'm also curious if reimplementing it in userspace would solve the
security problem.
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