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Verification of OSPF vulnerabilities by colored petri net

Niari, S. T ; Sharif University of Technology | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1145/2523514.2523532
  3. Publisher: 2013
  4. Abstract:
  5. Routers and routing protocols are critical parts of a network infrastructure. OSPF is one of the most important routing protocols, and therefore its vulnerabilities can be very destructive. This makes its security analysis critical. There are many reported and potential vulnerabilities in OSPF protocol. Considering the complexity and the ambiguity of its description in RFC 2328, it is very valuable to design a formal model of the protocol and analyze the vulnerabilities of its critical parts. In this paper, some challenging parts of OSPF protocol along with attack scenarios are modeled by means of Colored Petri Net in CPN Tools environment. Then, the reported vulnerabilities are analyzed by a behavioral property of Petri net, and the existence of the vulnerabilities is verified by the property checking. Moreover, a new potential vulnerability is presented and verified by both formal and experimental methods
  6. Keywords:
  7. Colored petri net ; Experimental security analysis ; Formal security analysis ; OSPF routing protocol ; Vulnerability ; Behavioral properties ; Colored Petri Nets ; Experimental methods ; Network infrastructure ; Property checking ; Security analysis ; Complex networks ; Frequency hopping ; Petri nets ; Routing protocols ; Security of data ; Security systems ; Internet protocols
  8. Source: SIN 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks ; November , 2013 , Pages 102-109 ; 9781450324984 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2523514.2523532