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sharing my simple wireguard kill-switch for Linux (lemmings.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does it matter?

This is a vulnerability anyway and we should be take care of.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It does matter if people now advocate to routinely disable useful features by default because they are a problem for their particular use case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

what features are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The ability to set static routes via DHCP server or for that matter the ability to remote boot systems via DHCP server which has similar problems if you can't trust the DHCP server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I see what you mean now. I wouldn't advocate for people to disable DHCP features either. It should be the VPN provider's responsibility to provide a proper VPN client that mitigates attacks like these.