FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 28 01:12:11 UTC 2007


Koga Youichirou wrote:
>> =============================================================================
>> FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6                                       Security Advisory
>>                                                           The FreeBSD Project
>> IPv6 provides a routing header option which allows a packet sender to
>> indicate how the packet should be routed, overriding the routing knowledge
>> present in a network.  This functionality is roughly equivalent to the
>> "source routing" option in IPv4.  All nodes in an IPv6 network -- both
>> routers and hosts -- are required by RFC 2640 to process such headers.
> 
> s/RFC 2640/RFC 2460/

Oops...

Colin Percival


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