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diff --git a/doc/pcre2serialize.3 b/doc/pcre2serialize.3 index 69bcb18..664c1db 100644 --- a/doc/pcre2serialize.3 +++ b/doc/pcre2serialize.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH PCRE2SERIALIZE 3 "03 November 2015" "PCRE2 10.21" +.TH PCRE2SERIALIZE 3 "24 May 2016" "PCRE2 10.22" .SH NAME PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) .SH "SAVING AND RE-USING PRECOMPILED PCRE2 PATTERNS" @@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ PCRE2's 16-bit library cannot be reloaded on a 64-bit system, nor can they be reloaded using the 8-bit library. . . +.SH "SECURITY CONCERNS" +.rs +.sp +The facility for saving and restoring compiled patterns is intended for use +within individual applications. As such, the data supplied to +\fBpcre2_serialize_decode()\fP is expected to be trusted data, not data from +arbitrary external sources. There is only some simple consistency checking, not +complete validation of what is being re-loaded. +. +. .SH "SAVING COMPILED PATTERNS" .rs .sp @@ -129,11 +139,12 @@ is filled with those that fit, and the remainder are ignored. The yield of the function is the number of decoded patterns, or one of the following negative error codes: .sp - PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA second argument is zero or less - PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC mismatch of id bytes in the data - PCRE2_ERROR_BADMODE mismatch of variable unit size or PCRE2 version - PCRE2_ERROR_MEMORY memory allocation failed - PCRE2_ERROR_NULL first or third argument is NULL + PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA second argument is zero or less + PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC mismatch of id bytes in the data + PCRE2_ERROR_BADMODE mismatch of code unit size or PCRE2 version + PCRE2_ERROR_BADSERIALIZEDDATA other sanity check failure + PCRE2_ERROR_MEMORY memory allocation failed + PCRE2_ERROR_NULL first or third argument is NULL .sp PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC may mean that the data is corrupt, or that it was compiled on a system with different endianness. @@ -170,6 +181,6 @@ Cambridge, England. .rs .sp .nf -Last updated: 03 November 2015 -Copyright (c) 1997-2015 University of Cambridge. +Last updated: 24 May 2016 +Copyright (c) 1997-2016 University of Cambridge. .fi |