Interesting... Decompression Bombs

[Remco Barendse]

Cool, 29 PB :)

Is there a copy available of it anywhere?? Nifty to
test a raid array :)


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> At 14:38 12/02/2004, you wrote:
> >An interesting issue for those of us that run virus scanners for mail.
> >Check out: http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/001711.html
>
> I built defences into MailScanner for this attack a very long time ago,
> don't worry. This is an old problem.
>
> 100Gb out of a 7k zip file isn't the worst/best you can achieve.
> There is a zip file of 42374 bytes which expands to over 29,000,000 Gbytes
> (over 29 Petabytes).
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>