New Linux vulnerability puts VPN connections at risk of hijacking

Most of the Linux distributions we tested were vulnerable, especially Linux distributions that use a version of systemd pulled after November 28th of last year which turned reverse path filtering off. However, we recently discovered that the attack also works against IPv6, so turning reverse path filtering on isn’t a reasonable solution, but this was how we discovered that the attack worked on Linux.

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