{"draft":"draft-ietf-6man-overlap-fragment-03","doc_id":"RFC5722","title":"Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments","authors":["S. Krishnan"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"6","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IPv6 Maintenance","abstract":"The fragmentation and reassembly algorithm specified in the base IPv6\r\nspecification allows fragments to overlap.  This document\r\ndemonstrates the security issues associated with allowing overlapping \r\nfragments and updates the IPv6 specification to explicitly forbid \r\noverlapping fragments.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"December 2009","keywords":["[--------]","fragmentation","overlapping fragments"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2460"],"updated_by":["RFC6946"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5722","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc5722"}