I've got a few .bad QWK files in my /sbbs/data directory.

When I rename them back to their original name (removing the random characters and the .bad) then force the job to import them, I get this error:

QNET /sbbs/data/STARFRON.qwk doesn't contain MESSAGES.DAT (/sbbs/temp/event/MESSAGES.DAT)

Why would a QWK not contain a MESSAGES.DAT?

Bob Roberts

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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Bob Roberts to All on Wed Jul 14 2021 11:44 am

QNET /sbbs/data/STARFRON.qwk doesn't contain MESSAGES.DAT (/sbbs/temp/event/MESSAGES.DAT)
Why would a QWK not contain a MESSAGES.DAT?

When I manually unzip the file I get:

Archive: STARFRON.qwk.60ef4892.bad
inflating: HEADERS.DAT
inflating: MESSAGES.DAT
inflating: VOTING.DAT
error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)

The MESSAGES.DAT that is extracted, seems to be valid.... I see a row with a message in it.

Bob Roberts

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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Bob Roberts to All on Wed Jul 14 2021 11:44 am

I've got a few .bad QWK files in my /sbbs/data directory.

When I rename them back to their original name (removing the random characters and the .bad) then force the job to import them, I get this error:

QNET /sbbs/data/STARFRON.qwk doesn't contain MESSAGES.DAT (/sbbs/temp/event/MESSAGES.DAT)

Why would a QWK not contain a MESSAGES.DAT?

That's a good qestion for the sysop of your hub (STARFRON). It would help if you verified it is a valid archive (e.g. ZIP file) and then perhaps list the contents of that zip file.
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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Bob Roberts to All on Wed Jul 14 2021 01:36 pm

Re: .bad QWK files
By: Bob Roberts to All on Wed
Jul 14 2021 11:44 am

QNET /sbbs/data/STARFRON.qwk doesn't contain MESSAGES.DAT (/sbbs/temp/event/MESSAGES.DAT)
Why would a QWK not contain a MESSAGES.DAT?

When I manually unzip the file I get:

Archive: STARFRON.qwk.60ef4892.bad
inflating: HEADERS.DAT
inflating: MESSAGES.DAT
inflating: VOTING.DAT
error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)

The MESSAGES.DAT that is extracted, seems to be valid.... I see a row with a message in it.

See if you can view or extract the archive with exec/archive.js
(e.g. 'jsexec archive list /path/to/*.bad') or replace 'list' with extract to try and extract it. This will use the libarchive support built-into SBBS v3.19. It's possible the archive is corrupt even though at least some of it can be extracted successfully using unzip.
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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Bob Roberts on Wed Jul 14 2021 05:31 pm

See if you can view or extract the archive with exec/archive.js
(e.g. 'jsexec archive list /path/to/*.bad') or replace 'list' with extract to try and extract it. This will use the libarchive support built-into SBBS v3.19. It's possible the archive is corrupt even though at least some of it can be extracted successfully using unzip. --

If I "archive list"

JSexec v3.19a-Linux master/02297d1a2 - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module Compiled Jul 14 2021 14:51:09 with GCC 9.3.0

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
JavaScript: Creating runtime: 8388608 bytes

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/archive.js
/sbbs/exec/archive.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
!STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad: Unsupported archive format
/sbbs/exec/archive.js executed in 0.00 seconds

JavaScript: Destroying context
JavaScript: Destroying runtime

If I "archive extract"

JSexec v3.19a-Linux master/02297d1a2 - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module Compiled Jul 14 2021 14:51:09 with GCC 9.3.0

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
JavaScript: Creating runtime: 8388608 bytes

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/archive.js
/sbbs/exec/archive.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
!JavaScript /sbbs/exec/archive.js line 38: Error: archive_read_next_header returned -30: Invalid central directory signature (after extracting 0 items successfully)
/sbbs/exec/archive.js executed in 0.00 seconds
!Module (archive) set exit_code: 1

JavaScript: Destroying context
JavaScript: Destroying runtime

Returning error code: 1

So looks like something is wrong with the Zips coming from STARFRON. I uploaded three of them (in a zip) here, if you want to take a look?

https://hovalbbs.com/temp/STARFRONbads.zip

Bob Roberts

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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Bob Roberts to Digital Man on Thu Jul 15 2021 10:56 am

Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Bob Roberts on
Wed Jul 14 2021 05:31 pm

See if you can view or extract the archive with exec/archive.js
(e.g. 'jsexec archive list /path/to/*.bad') or replace 'list' with extract to try and extract it. This will use the libarchive support built-into SBBS v3.19. It's possible the archive is corrupt even though at least some of it can be extracted successfully using unzip. --

If I "archive list"

!STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad: Unsupported archive format

I added a little bit more debug (log the exception), and I see:

Error: archive_read_next_header() returned -30: Invalid central directory signature
!STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad: Unsupported archive format

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/archive.js
/sbbs/exec/archive.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
!JavaScript /sbbs/exec/archive.js line 38: Error: archive_read_next_header returned -30: Invalid central directory signature (after extracting 0 items successfully)

I see the same.

So looks like something is wrong with the Zips coming from STARFRON.

I agree.

I
uploaded three of them (in a zip) here, if you want to take a look?

https://hovalbbs.com/temp/STARFRONbads.zip

I see the same errors reported by 'unzip -t' (using UnZip 6.00):
$ unzip -t STARFRON.qwk.60d4*
Archive: STARFRON.qwk.60d4e861.bad
testing: HEADERS.DAT OK
testing: MESSAGES.DAT OK
testing: VOTING.DAT OK
error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)

and I see something interesting with PkUNZIP -test (v2.50):

Testing files from .ZIP: STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad
Testing: HEADERS.DAT OK
Testing: OK
Testing: MESSAGES.DAT OK
Testing: VOTING.DAT OK

See that blank file entry? That's suspicious.

I guess more information is needed from the sysop of Star Frontiers.

It's interestingly hosted at synchronetbbs.org, so other hosted BBSes there might have the same or similar issue (!).
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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Bob Roberts on Thu Jul 15 2021 05:36 pm


Hi Melkor,

I've been having some problems with the QWK network files from your BBS (for Starnet). The problem started early this month, and since then all the QWK packets from you (for Starnet) are corrupt zip files. The issue is described below based on my dialog with DM.

See if you can view or extract the archive with exec/archive.js
(e.g. 'jsexec archive list /path/to/*.bad') or replace 'list' with
extract to try and extract it. This will use the libarchive
support built-into SBBS v3.19. It's possible the archive is
corrupt even though at least some of it can be extracted
successfully using unzip. --

If I "archive list"

!STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad: Unsupported archive format

I added a little bit more debug (log the exception), and I see:

Error: archive_read_next_header() returned -30: Invalid central directory signature !STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad: Unsupported archive format

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/archive.js
/sbbs/exec/archive.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
!JavaScript /sbbs/exec/archive.js line 38: Error:
archive_read_next_header returned -30: Invalid central directory
signature (after extracting 0 items successfully)

I see the same.

So looks like something is wrong with the Zips coming from STARFRON.

I agree.

I
uploaded three of them (in a zip) here, if you want to take a look?

https://hovalbbs.com/temp/STARFRONbads.zip

I see the same errors reported by 'unzip -t' (using UnZip 6.00):
$ unzip -t STARFRON.qwk.60d4*
Archive: STARFRON.qwk.60d4e861.bad
testing: HEADERS.DAT OK
testing: MESSAGES.DAT OK
testing: VOTING.DAT OK
error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)

and I see something interesting with PkUNZIP -test (v2.50):

Testing files from .ZIP: STARFRON.qwk.60ef3032.bad
Testing: HEADERS.DAT OK
Testing: OK
Testing: MESSAGES.DAT OK
Testing: VOTING.DAT OK

See that blank file entry? That's suspicious.

I guess more information is needed from the sysop of Star Frontiers.

It's interestingly hosted at synchronetbbs.org, so other hosted BBSes there might have the same or similar issue (!). --
digital man

Bob Roberts

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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Bob Roberts on Thu Jul 15 2021 05:36 pm

So looks like something is wrong with the Zips coming from STARFRON.

I agree.
It's interestingly hosted at synchronetbbs.org, so other hosted BBSes there might have the same or similar issue (!).

I will look into it but haven't heard of this issue before... If you come up with some suggestions I will be glad to hear them!

Marisa

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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Marisag to Digital Man on Fri Jul 16 2021 09:41 pm

Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Bob Roberts on Thu Jul 15 2021 05:36 pm

So looks like something is wrong with the Zips coming from STARFRON.

I agree.
It's interestingly hosted at synchronetbbs.org, so other hosted BBSes there might have the same or similar issue (!).

I will look into it but haven't heard of this issue before... If you come up with some suggestions I will be glad to hear them!

Well first would be to see if all the hosted Synchronet instances on your server(s) have this same issue. Are they all running the same build or version of Synchronet or are they updated (i.e. from Git) separately?

Since Synchronet v3.19 uses libarchive by default for the creation of zip files, it smells like a libarchive issue.
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Re: .bad QWK files
By: Digital Man to Marisag on Sat Jul 17 2021 12:24 pm

Havent seen this issue on any other BBS. Each BBS I provide is runniong on a different server, so maybe the users in question might have done something on their host? Maybe updating the SBBS installation on them should be updated...

Marisa

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