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by antisocialist 585 days ago
Not if you disable your IPv6 stack.

Or you can be smart and "easily" address such probing attacks in your FW rules... https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50252

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> Not if you disable your IPv6 stack.

The same technique can be used for IPv4. Disable both and become invulnerable to probing!

Why stop there? Probes traverse the whole TCP/IP stack, best to stop them early at layer 1: https://www.bit.nl/news/115/88/Cut-here-to-activate-firewall...