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Message-ID: <97105910-1cee-e171-4d63-04c21e6b549d@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 21:16:40 -0600 From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, 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 10/7/23 10:42 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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? +1 > > 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! and if that were to happen, whoever it is can always start with a revert of the removal patch and then fix known problems to get it added back to the code base. Seems like the right thing to do is remove it.
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