Re: Papers on IPv6 fragmentation

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 23 June 2008 03:28 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:18:21 -0300
To: Vishwas Manral <vishwas.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Papers on IPv6 fragmentation
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At 08:22 a.m. 22/06/2008, Vishwas Manral wrote:

>Though this may not be exactly what you are looking for, you may want
>to look at some of the issues we identified a long while back with
>IPv6 Tiny Fragments.
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manral-v6ops-tiny-fragments-issues-02

I had a quick look at your document. Here are some quick and dirty comments:

* Your documents talk about specifying a minimum size for non-last 
fragments. Actually, I think one should be concerned only about the 
*first* fragment. That's the one that's used to create state at firewalls, etc.

* I don't think imposing such a requirement will, by itself, help to 
ensure that you have in the first packet all the information you need 
to apply firewalls rules. It would be trivial for an attacker to 
comply with such a requirement, but still do not provide all the 
relevant information that would be needed by the firewall to apply 
its rules. The attacker could just add one or several extension 
headers, with lots of PadN options. Thus, it would comply with your 
requirement, but still avoid sending e.g. the TCP source and destination ports.

Kind regards,

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