Security Threats to Simplified Multicast Forwarding (SMF)
RFC 7985
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(November 2016; No errata)
Updates RFC 7186
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| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Replaces | draft-yi-manet-smf-sec-threats | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Yi
Request for Comments: 7985 T. Clausen
Updates: 7186 Ecole Polytechnique
Category: Informational U. Herberg
ISSN: 2070-1721 November 2016
Security Threats to Simplified Multicast Forwarding (SMF)
Abstract
This document analyzes security threats to Simplified Multicast
Forwarding (SMF), including vulnerabilities of duplicate packet
detection and relay set selection mechanisms. This document is not
intended to propose solutions to the threats described.
In addition, this document updates RFC 7186 regarding threats to the
relay set selection mechanisms using the Mobile Ad Hoc Network
(MANET) Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) (RFC 6130).
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It has been approved for publication by the Internet
Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the
IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see
Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7985.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. SMF Threat Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Threats to Duplicate Packet Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Attack on the Hop Limit Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Threats to Identification-Based Duplicate Packet
Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.1. Pre-Activation Attacks (Pre-Play) . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.2. De-activation Attacks (Sequence Number Wrangling) . . 8
4.3. Threats to Hash-Based Duplicate Packet Detection . . . . 9
4.3.1. Attack on the Hash-Assistant Value . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Threats to Relay Set Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. Common Threats to Relay Set Selection . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. Threats to the E-CDS Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2.1. Link Spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2.2. Identity Spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. Threats to S-MPR Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.4. Threats to the MPR-CDS Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
This document analyzes security threats to Simplified Multicast
Forwarding (SMF) [RFC6621]. SMF aims at providing basic Internet
Protocol (IP) multicast forwarding in a way that is suitable for
wireless mesh and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET). SMF consists of
two major functional components: duplicate packet detection (DPD) and
relay set selection (RSS).
SMF is typically used in decentralized wireless environments and is
potentially exposed to various attacks and misconfigurations. In a
wireless environment, some of these attacks and misconfigurations
represent threats of particular significance as compared to what they
would do in wired networks. [RFC6621] briefly discusses several of
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