Re: Security over IPv6 networks
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:49:52PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
> Infect one host, get the rest for free via local link(s).
> Then again, you have to succesfully infect/control one host
> before being able to do that and who says that there is another
> host that is possible for infection in the same /64 ;)
> But if you have one you got the rest too...
Moreover, until IPv4 goes away, if you find and infect a dual-stack host
over IPv4, the worm can use the link-local v6 stuff to find (and try to
infect) even v6-only hosts on the same network.
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