[rfc-dist] RFC 5722 on Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments

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RFC 5722

Title: Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments
Author: S. Krishnan
Status: Standards Track
Date: December 2009
Mailbox: suresh....@ericsson.com
Pages: 6
Characters: 11838
Updates: RFC2460

I-D Tag: draft-ietf-6man-overlap-fragment-03.txt

URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5722.txt

The fragmentation and reassembly algorithm specified in the base IPv6
specification allows fragments to overlap. This document
demonstrates the security issues associated with allowing overlapping
fragments and updates the IPv6 specification to explicitly forbid
overlapping fragments. [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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