[secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-softwire-yang-14

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Mon, 07 January 2019 16:22 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:22:14 -0800
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Subject: [secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-softwire-yang-14

Reviewer: Phillip Hallam-Baker
Review result: Has Nits

The document describes a schema and has appropriately identified the read/write
security concerns arising from it.

One issue that I thing could be usefully spelled out is that the use of
automated tools to decode structures of this type is not merely a programming
convenience. Attempts to parse length delimited objects nested in length
delimited structures using handwritten code is error prone and has led to
introduction of numerous buffer overrun vulnerabilities.

[secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-so… Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [secdir] [Softwires] Secdir last call review … ianfarrer