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Validation of Neighbor Discovery Source Link-Layer Address (SLLA) and Target Link-layer Address (TLLA) options
draft-gont-6man-lla-opt-validation-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Fernando Gont , Ron Bonica , Will (Shucheng) LIU
Last updated 2014-08-18 (Latest revision 2014-02-14)
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Abstract

This memo documents two scenarios in which an on-link attacker emits a crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet that poisons its victim's neighbor cache. In the first scenario, the attacker causes a victim to map a local IPv6 address to a local router's own link- layer address. In the second scenario, the attacker causes the victim to map a unicast IP address to a link layer broadcast address. In both scenarios, the attacker can exploit the poisoned neighbor cache to perform a subsequent forwording-loop attack, thus potentially causing a Denial of Service. Finally, this memo specifies simple validations that the recipient of an ND message can execute in order to protect itself against the above-mentioned threats.

Authors

Fernando Gont
Ron Bonica
Will (Shucheng) LIU

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