btshowmetainfo doesn't verify the file type

[Lars Ljung]

Binary package hint: bittorrent

Btshowmetainfo should check if the file is a bittorrent file before trying to extract any information. As it is now it reads the whole file into memory before trying to decode it. It the file is big, let's say a 700 MiB ISO-image, this will take a long time and the process can't even be killed with "kill -9".

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

Added a patch to solve the problem, it just checks for "d8:announce" and prints an error message it the file is of the wrong type.

[Andrea Veri (av)]

Debdiff which includes this patch has been added as attachment.

Thanks for your work.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

if the first 11 bytes in torrent files really are 'd8:announce', then this debdiff looks fine.

[Andrea Veri (av)]

bittorrent (3.4.2-11ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

   * Added 01_btshow-meta-info patch, now bittorrent checks
     file type before trying to extract any information. (LP: #108101)

 -- Andrea Veri <email address hidden> Thu, 31 May 2007 11:32:51 +0200