Re: (no subject)

["Nick Withers" <nick () nickwithers com>]

On Tue, 28 March, 2006 10:00 am, Alexander Hristov wrote:
> IM not saying the entire disk !

Well, logically speaking a partition is essentially an "entire disk", even
if it is one of 14 hypothetical "entire disks".

> Only the partition u choose the torrent to be saved in has to be full
> Like when u have 14 partitions and one of them is full i dont think
> this is a problem ?

It is if you're trying to write more data to it! :-)

> So this is a security bug

Not sure if you'd call it a *security* bug. Certainly should be handled
better though!

> On 3/27/06, Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski () gmail com> wrote:
> > This really doesn't seem like a security bug though... sure some site
> > could target opera users and try to force them to download torrents,
> > but when your disk is already full this sounds like the least of your
> > problems...
> >
> > -sb
> >
> > On 3/27/06, Alexander Hristov <joffer () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Opera > 8.02 with torrent support cant handle not enough space on
> > drive
> > > If your partition is full and u choose to save a torrent on this
> > > partition opera will start using 100% of your cpu and momery and
> > > eventually crash
> > >
> > > Tested with opera 9 p 2
> > > --
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Aleksander Hristov < root at securitydot.net > <
> > http://securitydot.net >
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> Aleksander Hristov < root at securitydot.net > < http://securitydot.net >
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