Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 9 authors, 2023-07-13

Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers

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From: Jan Engelhardt <hidden>
Date: 2023-01-11 13:41:19
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On Wednesday 2022-11-23 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.

In other news, someone just proposed adding "RNDIS" things to UEFI, so 
now the security problem is added right back into machines but at 
another layer?!

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/topic/patch_1_3/95531719
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