Kopete overloads system

[Joel Mulligan]

Binary package hint: kopete

If a contact attempts to send the user a large number of files kopete will continue opening "Accept File Transfer?" windows to the point where it begins to use enormous amounts of memory and cpu time. This isnt really a bug more a feature request I guess, there should be some way to stop a malicious contact from attempting to crash your msn session by sending large numbers of files (it ends up fully crashing/hanging kde/the system because kopete handles file transfers differently to the native msn client).

[Dustin Widmann (blackwaltz)]

Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

It would be nice if there were some sort of file transfer management. If someone decides they want to send me a handful of file, it gets rather cluttered to get a dozen request windows, followed by a dozen transfer windows.

[Dustin Widmann (blackwaltz)]

Created attachment 18518
screenshot

A screenshot of what I mean, in case I wasn't clear.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thanks for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Set to confirm due to existing upstream report.

Thanks again.

[Kedgedev (kedgedev)]

Since SVN commit 852546 a incoming file transfer request is shown in chat window. So the first bug is more or less fixed.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Should be fixed in KDE 4.2.

[9-christoph (9-christoph)]

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.