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-rw-r--r--external/xmlsec/ExternalProject_xmlsec.mk7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/external/xmlsec/ExternalProject_xmlsec.mk b/external/xmlsec/ExternalProject_xmlsec.mk
index 4fa4aea834b1..d1e2e5af2707 100644
--- a/external/xmlsec/ExternalProject_xmlsec.mk
+++ b/external/xmlsec/ExternalProject_xmlsec.mk
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ $(eval $(call gb_ExternalProject_register_targets,xmlsec,\
build \
))
+# note: it's possible to use XSLT in XML signatures - that appears to be a
+# really bad idea from a security point of view though, because it will run
+# an XSLT script supplied as untrusted input, and XSLT implementations
+# tend to have extension functions, and some of these trivially allow
+# running arbitrary code... so investigate the situation with libxslt
+# before enabling it here; hopefully nobody uses XSLT in practice anyway.
+
ifeq ($(OS),WNT)
$(eval $(call gb_ExternalProject_use_nmake,xmlsec,build))