RFC 4861, "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", September 2007

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 5942, RFC 6980, RFC 7048, RFC 7527, RFC 7559, RFC 8028, RFC 8319, RFC 8425, RFC 9131, RFC 9685

Errata ID: 6983
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Ramakrishna Rao DTV
Date Reported: 2022-05-30
Verifier Name: Eric Vyncke
Date Verified: 2023-08-03

Section 11.1 says:

   Redirect attacks can also be achieved by any host in order to flood a
   victim or steal its traffic.  A host can send a Neighbor
   Advertisement (in response to a solicitation) that contains its IP
   address and a victim's link-layer address in order to flood the
   victim with unwanted traffic.  Alternatively, the host can send a
   Neighbor Advertisement that includes a victim's IP address and its
   own link-layer address to overwrite an existing entry in the sender's
   destination cache, thereby forcing the sender to forward all of the
   victim's traffic to itself.

It should say:

   Redirect attacks can also be achieved by any host in order to flood a
   victim or steal its traffic.  A host can send a Neighbor
   Advertisement (in response to a solicitation) that contains its IP
   address and a victim's link-layer address in order to flood the
   victim with unwanted traffic.  Alternatively, the host can send a
   Neighbor Advertisement that includes a victim's IP address and its
   own link-layer address to overwrite an existing entry in the sender's
   neighbor cache, thereby forcing the sender to forward all of the
   victim's traffic to itself.

Notes:

s/destination cache/neighbor cache/

Neighbor advertisement affects neighbor cache and not destination cache.

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