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Apple's iOS 9 Breaks VPNs

Posted by timothy on from the but-I-love-my-central-posterior-nucleus dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report from The Stack that researchers have discovered a crucial security problem in the latest version of iOS 9: it breaks VPN connections to corporate servers. According to the linked piece, "The flaw was first detected in the iOS 9 beta, and has not been fixed in the released version. Neither has the bug been removed in the current iOS 9.1 beta." The workaround might not be what you want to hear, either, if you've happily upgraded to the latest version: it's to downgrade to iOS 8.4.1.

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  1. Source control? by mccalli · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What bothers me most about things like this is trying to relate it back to what is supposed to have changed in the latest versions. I can't think of anything in iOS 9 that should have touched code like this, which makes me wonder about the state of source control.

    Happy to be wrong, but Apple have had a few regression-type bugs before which again make me think their branching/merging strategies may not quite be up to snuff. Would like to be wrong though - anyone know of a changed area in iOS 9 that would have necessitated playing with something like this?

    1. Re:Source control? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Even if they had good reason to poke at this, or rewrite it from the ground up(because discoveryd was totally cooler and better than old-and-busted mdnsresponder, so why stop there?) what possible excuse is there for "This update breaks VPNs" to not be treated as an absolute showstopper? That's the sort of attitude that just doesn't cut it outside the realm of pitiful consumer crap.

    2. Re:Source control? by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      what possible excuse is there for "This update breaks VPNs" to not be treated as an absolute showstopper

      This is what happens when you try to make a software update part of a hardware roll-out. They have hardware that they want to ship at a specific date, but haven't had any chance to get the software tested out in a while. They basically had to release iOS 9 even though they knew there was bugs because it was necessary for the new iPad and iPhone models.

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  2. Impossible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone knows that Macs just work, more Micro$oft FUD.

  3. Split Tunneling? by mveloso · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Problem is DNS during split tunneling, which isn't the same as "breaks VPN."

    I guess the editors are either click-baiting, are technically illiterate, or both.