All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.

Hah! Joke's on you. I accidentally restarted my PC and updated it without wanting to.

😏🐧

As a networking nerd, I am endlessly frustrated with how many otherwise smart people are just 'fuck ipv6 lmao'

Giving me goddamn flashbacks to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26BAlfWBm8

Is this for Windows 11?

My windows XP laptop is good right?

"Compromises all devices running .... an IPv6 address."

Oh so no one is effected. (other then network nerds, and they are not real)

IPv6 huh? There are dozens of us!

Yay, new Xbox jailbreak method, can't wait for new modded warfare videos about it

I updated Windows so hard Linux popped out.

Sick my isp doesn't even support ipv6

To note: It shows even Windows Server 2008 as affected. Since MS is only testing against OSses they support, it is possible this has existed as a problem all the way back since IPv6 was first introduced to Windows XP.

Also, for all of you "disable IPv6 because I don't understand it" people... unless you are running Windows 8 or older, just update Windows. IPv4 has been out of addresses for so long that CGNAT is a thing, which means connectivity problems when you're hosting stuff, and more latency and packet drops from ISP routers getting saturated with NAT tasks. IPv6 is alive on the internet since 2011 and very much used on the internet, does not tie up routers by requiring NAT translation, and therefore just performs better. Plus, if you use your network printer's or network device's link-local ipv6 to connect locally, you will never have to deal with static ip address or changing ipv4 lan address pain, as link-local (non-routable on the internet) addresses don't change unless you force it.

Also don't use $35 routers for your internet. If your router does not support ipv6 firewalling, it is long since time to fix that with one that does.

Lmao good thing we're all on ipv4

This would presumably mainly be an issue for computers open to the internet. So not so much for home PCs, unless the router's firewall is opened up.

My LAN has ipv6 disabled. So there.

I just updated and now my audio sounds like shit.

I tried to roll out ipv6 when I was sysadmin for a small ISP. ARIN gave me a /32 block with no fuss. I started handing them out only to discover most routers at the time couldn't use them. Not much has changed. No one offers them and I just turned it off at my present job. None of my windows machine have the ipv6 stack enabled.

Token Ring FTW /s

I'm not running my computer with an IPv6 address. Only my modem has an IPv6 address. Does that mean I'm not affected?

I'll make sure to updats either way though.

What about reactOS?

This is why I get Linux or Apple.

Switch to Linux, be done with all of this Microsoft software nonsense

Well, not ALL Windows machines...

"Systems are not affected if IPv6 is disabled on the target machine."

I can't remember the last time I saw an IPv6 machine...