netdev - Re: Race Condition Vulnerability in atalk_bind of appletalk module leading to UAF

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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 18:42:27 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, rootlab@...wei.com
Subject: Re: Race Condition Vulnerability in atalk_bind of appletalk module
 leading to UAF

On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 08:35:12 +0200
> Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Sili Luo of Huawei sent this to the security list. Eric and I think it
> > does not deserve special handling from the security team and will be
> > better addressed here.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Willy
> > 
> > PS: there are 6 reports for atalk in this series.
> 
> Maybe time has come to kill Appletalk like DecNet was removed?

This long painful series could definitely be the best argument for this,
as I doubt anyone still relies on it so much that they're willing to
invest several hours to fix this mess!

Willy