Bug 143639

Summary: possible overwrite of home directory upon receving a file without a name
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Daniel Mircea <visez.trance>
Component: Yahoo PluginAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel Mircea 2007-03-30 19:51:36 UTC 
Version:           0.12.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

Kopete's yahoo file transfer is known to be somewhat buggy. I've received a file from a friend (he was using the latest version of yahoo messenger) that kopete failed to asign a name (it was named something like ""). Tring to save it, prompt me with a warning: /home/my_home_directory already exists. The file he sent me had a short normal ASCII name. I have been unable to replicate this bug, but i belive a failsafe should exist.
Comment 1 Steve Hay 2008-07-07 01:57:18 UTC 
Uncertain what reporter is attempting to report.  Please provide more detail regarding what steps were taken to induce the bug and the intended vs. actual behavior.
Comment 2 Daniel Mircea 2008-07-07 08:27:52 UTC 
When Kopete receives a file, it prompts the user to save it. The file name kopete displayed was ""(empty string). When I pressed save, it said: "the file /home/daniel already exists, do you want to overwrite this file?" Choosing yes, would had most likely overwritten my home directory.

Expected behaviour: kopete should tell the diffence between a file and a directory (even though they are the same thing on a *nix system).

This happend only once(and that was more than a year ago), but it did seem serious.
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-15 23:33:08 UTC 
Hello from the KDE Bugsquad!

Unfortunately, Yahoo has discontinued the Yahoo Messenger service, and the code has been removed from Kopete.

Thus, I am closing this bug as "UNMAINTAINED" since it will no longer be fixable, or able to operate due to Yahoo.