Extracting rar file fills all disk space

Bug #1926829 reported by Michael Scofield
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Bug Description

Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04

Package version:
file-roller:
  Installed: 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1 500
        500 http://hr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.36.1-1 500
        500 http://hr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

Expected:
Either an error that the rar file cannot be extracted or the successful extraction of the rar file.

Reality:
file-roller created a folder in which the extracted files should be, of size 0, and it quickly consumed my entire partition. The size of the folder remained 0 and it was empty. When inspecting with Disk analyzer, it showed it was 20 GB (the remaining space on my disk that was filled).

Note:
The bug is reproducible on my system.
I also have an SSD, if it might be of importance to the bug somehow.

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Michael Scofield (mscofield) wrote :

The rar file that causes it

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jdeus (jdeus) wrote :

I have a similar problem. When i try to extract a rar file with 3 files inside it, the program write all space of my disk.

I have a SSD disk.

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