Analysis of the Threats abusing IPv6 Fragment Header

  • Zhao, Zhen (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Gyeong, Gye-Hyeon (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Ko, Kwang-Sun (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Eom, Young-Ik (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • 발행 : 2007.05.11

초록

The security issues related to IPv6 protocol have been focused on by many researchers and engineers. Especially, extension headers of IPv6 protocol provide various functionalities such as IP security, mobile IP, and in principle, it is said to give much more effective network services than the previous protocol, IPv4. In this paper, the cases are surveyed in which fragment header, that is one of many extension headers in IPv6 protocol, is abused and made to be the sources of threats. Prevention mechanisms are also surveyed to countermeasure the threats.

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