Subject: Re: Can an XSLT document invoke arbitrary extension functions?
From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:00:45 +0000 (GMT)
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Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Hi,
> The briefing seems to suggest that XSLT is
riddled with security
> leaks, as any XSLT transform can invoke pretty much
any
> arbitrary function (apparently including, as the below XSLT
> transform
shows, any arbitrary Windows function).
A processor can provide such
extension functions, sure. But
well, the same way you can do pretty weird
things in Java or any
other programming languages. This is not a security
hole, this is
a feature you can use or not. Of course, if you plan to execute
a
program coming from the wild wild world, you have to very carefully
disable
those features on your processor.
Regards,
--
Florent Georges
http://www.fgeorges.org/
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