Please update testdisk package to new upstream 7.x release
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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testdisk (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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testdisk (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please update testdisk package to new upstream 7.x release (7.1 now is the latest, it seems).
In testdisk 7.0 developers added GUI tool - QPhotoRec and because of this Testdisk package must be split at least in 3 binary packages: PhotoRec, QPhotoRec and Testdisk
QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.
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I'm pasting TestDisk 7.0 Release notes:
Various fix including security fix, thanks to
Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code)
afl-fuzz (security-oriented fuzzer).
Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow
TestDisk
Improvements
exFAT: better support
ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file listing
Bug fixes
Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector
FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug.
PhotoRec & QPhotoRec
QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.
PhotoRec remains recommended for advanced users, it can stop a recovery and resume it later, it recovers more fragmented files when brute-force technology is enabled and expert mode is available.
Improvements
Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats.
.gif: fix filesize detection
.flv: add Flash filesize detection
.mpg: detect filesize for MPEG
.ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3
Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general speed increased
Speedup brute-force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented files, but it's still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec Options menu.
New file formats recovered by PhotoRec:
.3dm: Rhino / openNURBS
.ari: ARRI Raw Video
.camrec: Camtasia Studio
.dad: Micae DVR
.dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
.fp12: File Maker Pro 12
.kra: Krita
.mlv: Magic Lantern Video
.notebook: SMART notebook
.ora: Mypaint
.red: RED2 video format
.rlv: Revelation password
.vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata
.woff: Web Open Font Format
Changed in testdisk (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
tags: | added: upgrade-software-version |
tags: | added: xenial |
Changed in testdisk (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in testdisk (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in testdisk (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.