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submitted 6 months ago by xabadak@lemmings.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/8926396

In light of the recent TunnelVision vulnerability I wanted to share a simple firewall that I wrote for wireguard VPNs.

https://codeberg.org/xabadak/wg-lockdown

If you use a fancy official VPN client from Mullvad, PIA, etc, you won't need this since most clients already have a kill switch built in (also called Lockdown Mode in Mullvad). This is if you use a barebones wireguard VPN like me, or if your VPN client has a poorly-designed kill switch (like NordVPN, more info here).

A firewall should mitigate the vulnerability, though it does create a side-channel that can be exploited in extremely unlikely circumstances, so a better solution would be to use network namespaces (more info here). Unfortunately I'm a noob and I couldn't find any scripts or tools to do it that way.

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[-] xabadak@lemmings.world 1 points 5 months ago

No offense taken, on the contrary thanks for the constructive criticism! I'll add some more details to my repo to make things more clear.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Of course! And anytime!!

this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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