netdev - Re: VPN traffic leaks in IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack networks/hosts

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <50B66CA1.5050907@gont.com.ar>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:57:21 -0300
From:	Fernando Gont <fernando@...t.com.ar>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VPN traffic leaks in IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack networks/hosts

On 11/27/2012 01:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> For a project such as OpenVPN, a (portable) fix might be non-trivial.
> 
> If the VPN server does not even advertise to-be-secured IPv6 prefixes, 
> any client-side fix is questionable. 

If the VPN is supposed to secure all traffic, and the VPN just fails to
support v6, then for me, it's questionable to have your traffic leak out
the VPN just because of that lack of IPv6 support.

But YMMV, of couse.

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
e-mail: fernando@...t.com.ar || fgont@...networks.com
PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html