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Local User Tails Linux IP Leak

posted by janrinok on Sunday June 17 2018, @09:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-quite-secure dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A compromised local user can leak your IP by using a script to start unsafe-browser hidden in the background and use X11 trickery to leak your real IP without privilege escalation. Most applications exploited on Tails would be capable of this.

deleting /etc/sudoers.d/zzz_unsafe-browser after booting will fix this issue until Tails fixes it themselves

Bug #15635

Feature #7072: Research potential for deanonymization by a compromised "amnesia" user

The Unsafe Browser allows to retrieve the public IP address by a compromised amnesia user with no user interaction

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Burz on Monday June 18 2018, @03:37AM

    by Burz (6156) on Monday June 18 2018, @03:37AM (#694414)

    A system that runs tor and apps (browser, etc) in separate VMs:

    https://www.whonix.org [whonix.org]

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