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WireGuard pfSense package outdated?

mr cheese
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Hey all, I use WireGuard as my VPN of choice since I just wasn't ever getting great mileage out of OpenVPN every time I used it. As of now it's running on pfSense. However, since pfSense maintains its own packages alongside the FreeBSD official repo, I noticed where pfSense's WireGuard is on version 1.6_2, FreeBSD is on 2.1. Similarly, packages like wireguard-kmod are now 6 months out-of-date. Typically I wouldn't bat an eye to this but since WireGuard is a more experimental (and, in the past, hacked-together mess of a) VPN I figured it would be best for security that they would stay more up-to-date.

 

Is it safe to be on these (relatively) outdated packages for everyday use, and would it be wise (or work well at all with pfSense's web configurator) to use the more up-to-date FreeBSD binaries?

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9 hours ago, mr cheese said:

Hey all, I use WireGuard as my VPN of choice since I just wasn't ever getting great mileage out of OpenVPN every time I used it. As of now it's running on pfSense. However, since pfSense maintains its own packages alongside the FreeBSD official repo, I noticed where pfSense's WireGuard is on version 1.6_2, FreeBSD is on 2.1. Similarly, packages like wireguard-kmod are now 6 months out-of-date. Typically I wouldn't bat an eye to this but since WireGuard is a more experimental (and, in the past, hacked-together mess of a) VPN I figured it would be best for security that they would stay more up-to-date.

 

Is it safe to be on these (relatively) outdated packages for everyday use, and would it be wise (or work well at all with pfSense's web configurator) to use the more up-to-date FreeBSD binaries?

WireGuard isn’t a hacked together VPN, it’s becoming one of the most widely used…

 

This is a fair question tho, and I am actually unsure if the answer. I also use it myself as a plug-in in pfsense. But, seeing as pfsense is an enterprise appliance, and WireGuard is a office plug-in of theirs, I wouldn’t be to concerned. If there was any serious security flaw, I am relatively certain they would release a patch as soon as it was known. But maybe someone would have more info and could shed more light then myself. 

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1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

WireGuard isn’t a hacked together VPN

specifically in the past it was, which is why it is no longer installed by default in pfSense and labeled as experimental, and was removed from FreeBSD in previous iterations. Thankfully though it does work well now and it'll probably be my new go-to, though IKEv2 IPSec is an enticing offer (though after that nifty NSA slideshow I wonder how safe it'll be in the coming years)

 

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

I wouldn’t be to concerned. If there was any serious security flaw, I am relatively certain they would release a patch as soon as it was known

This is a good point though, I imagine it is safe at the very least but I do wonder if there's any performance to be gained by using the more up-to-date FreeBSD version, even if that version is only 6 months newer. I'm guessing that if it hasn't made its way into the newer releases yet it'll either be added with pfSense 2.7.0 stable or be pushed out Eventually™

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