Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatypes

"Krishna Sankar (ksankar)" <ksankar@cisco.com> Sun, 12 December 2010 04:58 UTC

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New version posted http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-cdmi-mediatypes-04.txt

Cheers & thanks
<k/>

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Subject: Re: secdir review of draft-cdmi-mediatypes

"Krishna Sankar (ksankar)" <ksankar@cisco.com> writes:

> Tom,
> 	The security considerations in RFC 4627 pertains to JavaScript
> and security pertaining to scripting languages. We are not using
> JavaScript in CDMI and so that section is not relevant here.
> Cheers
> <k/>

Section 3.1 of your document says that the CDMI interface represents
CDMI objects in JSON format.  If some element of some CDMI
implementation is written (perhaps ill-advisedly) in JavaScript and
chooses to use eval() to parse the JSON encoding, then I believe the
Security Considerations of RFC 4627 would apply.