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

On Wednesday 2022-11-23 13:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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>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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