Author: fanningpj
Date: Wed Jul 17 14:18:28 2024
New Revision: 1919313
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1919313&view=rev
Log:
update security notes
Modified:
poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml
Modified: poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml?rev=1919313&r1=1919312&r2=1919313&view=diff
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--- poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml (original)
+++ poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/security.xml Wed Jul 17 14:18:28
2024
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
<ul>
<li><strong>Expect any type of Exception when processing
documents</strong><br/>
As parsing the various formats is very complex and involved,
there are some unexpected types of
- exceptions which can be thrown. E.g. StackOverflow or many
different types of RuntimeException.
+ exceptions which can be thrown. E.g. StackOverflowError or
many different types of RuntimeException.
<br/>
Make sure to have a broad catch-statement around your
document-parsing functionality and be prepared
to handle all those gracefully.
@@ -87,9 +87,16 @@
streaming APIs.
</li>
<li><strong>Consider sandboxing document-parsing</strong><br/>
- If you operate in a highly sensitive enviornment and would
like to avoid any side effect from
+ If you operate in a highly sensitive environment and would
like to avoid any side effect from
parsing documents on your application, then consider
extracting the parsing logic into a separate
process which is configured with appropriate memory settings
and which you stop after some timeout.
+ It is a good idea to be able to auto-restart the process in
case of a crash.
+ <br />
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Keep up to date with releases</strong><br/>
+ Apache POI does occasionally issue CVEs for security issues.
There are also other bug fixes and
+ improvements in each release. Some of these fixes will be to
make POI more robust against malicious
+ inputs, even if they are not explicitly security-related.
<br />
</li>
</ul>
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