Unveiling The Hidden Risks Of Routing Protocols
CXOtoday.com, Friday, August 18,2023
Neglecting security of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and other routing protocols has created multiple vulnerabilities that must be addressed.
Routing protocols play a critical role in the functioning of the Internet and the services built upon them. However, many of these protocols were developed without security concerns in mind.
For example, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) did not originally consider the potential for attacks between peers. Much work has been dedicated in the past decades to origin and path validation in BGP. However, neglecting the security of BGP implementations, especially message parsing, has resulted in multiple vulnerabilities that could be exploited to achieve denial of service (DoS).