Subject: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-mpls-return-path-specified-lsp-ping

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:08:05 -0700

This document defines a set of extensions to MPLS to allow the failure detection mode (basically, a ping) to know which path to use in the reply. Given that MPLS is a protocol that is only run between gateways that fully trust each other, there are not many security considerations for such an extensions. The entire Security Considerations section reads:

   Security considerations discussed in [RFC4379] apply to this
   document.  In addition to that, in order to prevent using the
   extension defined in this document for "proxying" any possible
   attacks, the return path LSP MUST have destination to the same node
   where the forward path is from.

That actually seems sufficient, given that the underlying protocol is not meant to have any non-administrative security features.

--Paul Hoffman