Re: Security considerations: p:exec et al.

Are you satisfied with the new Security Considerations section?

/ Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt> was heard to say:
| More dangerous than p:load, p:store or p:http-request, the p:exec is
| prone to abuse, especially on importing externally-defined pipeline
| libraries.
|
| We should say something about it either in Section 2.9 (Security
| Considerations), or in the step declaration (7.2.1).
|
| p:xslt has the same problem, as some XSLT implementations (e.g.,
| Saxon) afford embedding and executing arbitrary Java methods.
|
| p:xquery might be prone to the same issue.
|
| Cheers,
| Rui
|
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Received on Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:00:46 UTC