The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>One of the fragmentation weaknesses known in IPv6 is the undetermined transport packet. This packet contains an undetermined protocol due to fragmentation. Depending on the length of the IPv6 extension header chain, the initial fragment may not contain the layer four port information of the packet.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-230049r856663_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the router to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets as shown in the example below.
RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config)# ipv6 access-list FILTER_IPV6
RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config-ipv6-acl)# deny ipv6 any any undetermined-transport log
RP/0/0/CPU0:R3(config-ipv6-acl)# permit ipv6 …
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