Bug#430704: file-roller: Invalid memory reference

[Otavio Salvador]

Nicola Manca <nicola-manca at libero.it> writes:

> Josselin Mouette ha scritto:
>> Le mercredi 27 juin 2007 à 11:14 +0200, Nicola Manca a écrit :
>>   
>>> solved:
>>>
>>> file-roller uses "rar" to decompress .rar archive, from command line I have:
>>>
>>> $rar e file_that_cause_crash.rar
>>> file_that_cause_crash.rar - the file header is corrupt
>>> Unknown method in content1_file_that_cause_crash.rar
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I Uninstalled rar and keept only unrar, now file-roller works!
>>>     
>>
>> This is still an important bug, as file-roller shouldn't crash if rar
>> fails. 
>>   
> I cannot share the .rar file, anyway the informations I gave you aren't 
> enough?

It's probably not easy to reproduce a rar with an invalid
header.

Will be easier if you send, at least for Josselin, one of those rar
archives that are failing so he can patch file-roller to not crash
anymore.

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