ICMPv6 PTBs and IPv6 frag filtering (particularly at BGP peers)

Thu Jan 12 19:53:13 UTC 2017

Many (most?) Implementations don't even check  the embedded port
numbers...do tye attacker does not even need to guess the client port.

besides, becaude of ipv6 ehs, you're not really guaranteed to receive e.g.
the tcp header in the embedded payload (the embedded payload could easily
be fixed ipv6 header + ehs).

Cheers,
Fernando

El 12/1/2017 16:32, "Saku Ytti" <saku at ytti.fi> escribió:

> On 12 January 2017 at 17:02, Fernando Gont <fgont at si6networks.com> wrote:
> > That's the point: If you don't allow fragments, but your peer honors
> > ICMPv6 PTB<1280, then dropping fragments creates the attack vector.
>
> Thanks. I think I got it now. Best I can offer is that B could try to
> verify the embedded original packet? Hopefully attacker won't have
> access to that information. An if attacker has access to that
> information, they may as well do TCP RST, right?
>
> Didn't we have same issues in IPv4 with ICMP unreachable and frag
> neeeded, DF set? And vendors implemented more verification if the ICMP
> message should be accepted.
>
> --
>   ++ytti
>