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+.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.9 2014/07/22 18:14:13 schwarze Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
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.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 21 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 22 2014 $
.Dt MAN.CGI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
is supported as an alias for
.Cm sec .
.El
+.Ss Restricted character set
+For security reasons, in particular to prevent cross site scripting
+attacks, some strings used by
+.Nm
+can only contain the following characters:
+.Pp
+.Bl -dash -compact -offset indent
+.It
+lower case and upper case ASCII letters
+.It
+the ten decimal digits
+.It
+the dash
+.Pq Sq -
+.It
+the dot
+.Pq Sq \&.
+.It
+the slash
+.Pq Sq /
+.It
+the underscore
+.Pq Sq _
+.El
+.Pp
+In particular, this applies to the
+.Ev SCRIPT_NAME ,
+to all manpaths, and to all architecture names.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The web server may pass the following CGI variables to
.Nm :
.Pa /cgi-bin/man.cgi .
This is used for generating URIs to be embedded
in generated HTML code and HTTP headers.
+If this contains any character not contained in the
+.Sx Restricted character set ,
+.Nm
+reports an internal server error and exits without doing anything.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
itself, linked from the index page.
.It Pa /man/manpath.conf
The list of available manpaths, one per line.
+If any of the lines in this file contains a slash
+.Pq Sq /
+or any character not contained in the
+.Sx Restricted character set ,
+.Nm
+reports an internal server error and exits without doing anything.
.It Pa /man/OpenBSD-current/man1/mandoc.1
An example
.Xr mdoc 7