Re: [Extra] Status of draft-ietf-extra-sieve-fcc

Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Sun, 13 January 2019 15:54 UTC

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Cc: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>, extra <extra@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Extra] Status of draft-ietf-extra-sieve-fcc
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> On 1/13/19 10:22 AM, Ned Freed wrote:
> >> On 1/10/19 11:40 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Based on IESG review, I think the document should have some text about
> >> > the following security/privacy considerations:
> >> >
> >> > 1) Possible information disclosure from generated messages which are
> >> > filed to shared folders (as opposed to private folders). I.e. non
> >> > intended parties might discover that a Sieve script owner is on
> >> > holidays, owner's location, etc.
> >> >
> >> > 2) FCC can put owner over quota, causing denial of service.
> >
> >
> >> How would this cause DoS?  If the FCC would put the user over quota,
> >> presumably this would be treated as a run-time error, and the incoming
> >> message would be be stored by an implicit keep.  Or are you just saying
> >> that the FCC itself is what would be denied?
> >
> > It's not the effect of a single fcc, but rather that fcc can be used
> > to create
> > an additional stream of messages, the cumulative effect of which would
> > be to
> > put the user at or over quota.


> Ahh, yes!  I hadn't thought about that.


> > As for the handling of situations where the fcc can't be delivered, we're
> > talking about notifications here, and we've learned the hard way that
> > generating more traffic as as result of a notification delivery
> > failure is a
> > REALLY bad idea. As such, I would expect an fcc delivery failure to be
> > silently ignored. That's certainly how my implementation works.


> Should we add text to this effect?

Good idea.

				Ned