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ICMP Usage in Scanning or Understanding Some of the ICMP Protocol’s Hazards

Overview The ICMP Protocol may seem harmless at first glance. Its goals and features were outlined in RFC 792 (and than later cleared in RFCs 1122, 1256, 1822), as a way to provide a means to send error messages. In terms of security, ICMP is one of the most controversial protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite. The risks involved in implementing the ICMP protocol in a network, regarding scanning, are the subject of this research paper. Scanning will usually be the major stage of an information gathering process a malicious computer attacker will lunch against a targeted network.

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Publisher	Sys-Security.com	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2000	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Industry Standard Protocols, TCP - IP, Scanners - Digitizers, Security Standards

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