[tor-bugs] #8049 [Stem]: Stem's DescriptorReader misses 10% of descriptors in tarballs

Sun Feb 17 05:21:28 UTC 2013

#8049: Stem's DescriptorReader misses 10% of descriptors in tarballs
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 Reporter:  karsten  |          Owner:  atagar  
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:          
Component:  Stem     |        Version:          
 Keywords:           |         Parent:          
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by atagar):

 ... oh wow. That's a little embarrassing - I can't believe that it took me
 this long to spot this. We abort parsing archives when we encounter a non-
 descriptor. Changing the behavior to instead treat the tarball contents as
 individual files.

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