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A better zip bomb (2019)


zip bomb David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com updated , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Summary This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb that achieves a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container. "Non-recursive" means that it does not rely on a decompressor's recursively unpacking zip files nested within zip files: it expands fully after a single round of decompression.

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