Mitigating ICMP Redirect Attacks in Networks

This coursework explores ICMP redirect attacks by examining their purpose, mechanisms, exploitation methods, and impacts. It explains how attackers exploit ICMP protocol vulnerabilities through gateway spoofing to intercept network traffic and manipulate routing tables. A virtualized LAN experiment demonstrates these attacks and highlights the risks of unauthenticated redirects. Mitigation strategies include disabling ICMP redirect processing, enforcing authentication protocols, and...