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Experts scramble to quash IPv6 flaw
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-05-09

A flawed feature that could amplify denial-of-service attacks on next-generation networks has vendors and engineers rushing to eliminate the potential security issue.

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Not so new, and not unexpected. 2007-05-16
support (at) securesoftware (dot) ca [email concealed]
Although this particular way to exploit the RH0 feature is new, the security issues related to the RH0 feature are not new and have been known almost from the first day this feature was added to the IPv6 specification.

One of the reasons this feature is in the IPv6 specifications is to enable Sou...

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