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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 19

42 Kilobytes Unzipped Make 4.5 Petabytes

In 2001 reports about Zip Bombs or Zip of Death attacks made the round on the Internet and I thought it would be nice to write about one shiny harmless example of that technique. On first glance the file 42.zip is a normal compressed file with the size of 42 Kilobytes. Many users who run [...]

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