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# logger.rb - simple logging utility
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2003, 2005, 2008 NAKAMURA, Hiroshi <nahi@ruby-lang.org>.
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2003, 2005, 2008, 2011 NAKAMURA, Hiroshi <nahi@ruby-lang.org>.
#
-# Author:: NAKAMURA, Hiroshi <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp>
# Documentation:: NAKAMURA, Hiroshi and Gavin Sinclair
# License::
# You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms of Ruby's
@@ -41,6 +40,21 @@ require 'monitor'
# want to know about the program's internal state, and would set them to
# +DEBUG+.
#
+# **Note**: Logger does not escape or sanitize any messages passed to it.
+# Developers should be aware of when potentially malicious data (user-input)
+# is passed to Logger, and manually escape the untrusted data:
+#
+# logger.info("User-input: #{input.dump}")
+# logger.info("User-input: %p" % input)
+#
+# You can use Logger#formatter= for escaping all data.
+#
+# original_formatter = Logger::Formatter.new
+# logger.formatter = proc { |severity, datetime, progname, msg|
+# original_formatter.call(severity, datetime, progname, msg.dump)
+# }
+# logger.info(input)
+#
# === Example
#
# A simple example demonstrates the above explanation: