• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”

    So there are ways.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Wait so the vulnerability exists on macos and iphone even though those are based on bsd (right?)

      Edit: and also Windows, forgot about Windows

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        7 months ago

        Hilariously enough, Windows users can use WSL to run a Linux VPN (but only applications running in WSL are safe if I understand the attack right)

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      7 months ago

      True, if you neg a linux dev online enough for two years, you can make your entire infrastructure vulnerable to attack

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      7 months ago

      Hate to rain on the Linux parade here, but didn’t the article say: “There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Android.” and that Linux was just as vulnerable as Windows?

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          I was going from this: (emphasis mine)

          Interestingly, Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn’t implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks.