full-disclosure - Opera > 8.02 with torrent support cant handle not enough space on drive

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Date: Mon Mar 27 21:55:46 2006
From: stan.bubrouski at gmail.com (Stan Bubrouski)
Subject: Opera > 8.02 with torrent support cant handle
	not enough space on drive

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@...il.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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