A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : Processing of IPv6 "atomic" fragments Author(s) : Fernando Gont Filename : draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments-04.txt Pages : 14 Date : 2013-03-20 Abstract: The IPv6 specification allows packets to contain a Fragment Header without the packet being actually fragmented into multiple pieces (we refer to these packets as "atomic fragments"). Such packets are typically sent by hosts that have received an ICMPv6 "Packet Too Big" error message that advertises a "Next-Hop MTU" smaller than 1280 bytes, and are currently processed by some implementations as normal "fragmented traffic" (i.e., they are "reassembled" with any other queued fragments that supposedly correspond to the same original packet). Thus, an attacker can cause hosts to employ "atomic fragments" by forging ICMPv6 "Packet Too Big" error messages, and then launch any fragmentation-based attacks against such traffic. This document discusses the generation of the aforementioned "atomic fragments" and the corresponding security implications. Additionally, this document formally updates RFC 2460 and RFC 5722 such that IPv6 atomic fragments are processed independently of any other fragments, thus completely eliminating the aforementioned attack vector. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-atomic-fragments-04 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
