Re: IQ Handling vulnerabilities

Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xmpp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/10/14, 5:12 AM, Thijs Alkemade wrote:
>
> On 9 feb. 2014, at 23:04, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'd hope Kev's example is way off, though - I suspect that servers ignore
>>> the XEP-0199 reply stanza and just look for activity on the socket.
>>
>> I would hope so, too - but given some of the things we've seen on the
>> client side in the last couple of weeks, I don't think it's
>> unreasonable to suspect there might be servers with as severe
>> problems. Whether we can find the vulnerabilities or not, though,
>> doesn't reduce the need to document the issues, I think.
>>
>> /K
>
> I’ve submitted an I-D about this issue here, to help discussion at IETF 89:
>
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-alkemade-xmpp-iq-validation/

Hi Thijs,

The document looks good to me. I'll review it in more detail after I 
submit the ~10 I-Ds I need to update this week. :-)

Peter

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