Inter-protocol Exploitation

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Inter-protocol exploitation is a security vulnerability in the fundamentals of the communication protocols used in the Internet. It was discovered in 2007 and publicly announced in research of the same year.

Internet protocol implementations allow for the possibility of encapsulating exploit code to compromise a remote program which uses a different protocol. Inter-protocol exploitation is where one protocol attacks a service running a different protocol. This is a legacy problem because the specifications of the protocols did not take into consideration an attack of this type.