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Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic (mullvad.net)
submitted 6 hours ago by alakey@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

The bug was reported to the Android Security Team, but was closed as Won’t Fix (Infeasible) [...] In contrast, GrapheneOS, a security-focused Android-based OS, quickly patched the issue in its codebase.

A mitigation is possible, but is quite technical in that it requires USB debugging to be enabled on the device in order to run the following Android Debug Bridge (adb) commands:

adb shell device_config put tethering close_quic_connection -1

adb reboot

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

LOL if that's the fix and the Android Security team won't fix it... jfc what a joke

I have a bunch of android based barcode scanners at work that we have to use adb to do some of the configuration setup. it's a powerful tool but it's not rocket science or anything more complicated than command line stuff

[–] Emotional_Engi@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They won't fix the thing because they're ordered to do so. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fixed in GrapheneOS fwiw

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 38 minutes ago

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

They've copied gOS's homework one hell of a lot. They clearly don't want to do so here.