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A flawed feature that could amplify denial-of-service attacks on next-generation networks has vendors and engineers rushing to eliminate the potential security issue.

“In rough terms, it makes everything we thought was bad, a thousand times worse,” Paul Vixie, president of the Internet Systems Consortium, said in an e-mail interview with SecurityFocus. “It can be exploited by any greedy Estonian teenager with a $300 Linux machine…”

The security issues comes as more organizations are making the switch to IPv6 from the current Internet routing standard (IPv4). The U.S. federal government and many major corporations are transitioning to the standard by the end of the decade. The U.S. Department of Defense and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget have mandated that the military services and federal agencies move their backbone systems to IPv6 by June 30, 2008.

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