A review on ICMPv6 vulnerabilities and its mitigation techniques: Classification and art

In IPv4, ICMP was used for error reporting and flow control management among others. Due to lack of security consideration in the design of ICMPv4 protocol leading to numerous vulnerabilities, this has led to exploitation and attacks on a particular network. IPv6 is a new protocol introduced to replace IPv4 in order to circumvent IP address depletion. ICMPv6 now has expanded role, so security measures introduced in ICMPv4 are no longer sufficient to address the security issues potentially inherent in ICMPv6. This paper will review the vulnerabilities and exploitation of ICMPv6. The existing mitigation techniques and approaches used to address these vulnerabilities will also be reviewed to an extent.