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Re: Mail Server testing


From: Nicolas Gregoire <ngregoire () exaprobe com>
Date: 13 May 2003 08:35:25 +0200

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 05:39, per () same net wrote:

* Zip-Of-Death. Make one huge (a couple of gigabytes) file and fill it with 
homogenous data, for instance only the character "a". Zip it. This will 
construct of a file that says "this files contains of 10(8) a:s" that is very 
small. Most modern mail content systems handles this today, some older might 
not.

You should give a look to a file known as 42.zip :

        http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3027/exploit/


"42.zip: ZIP archive, 42K, composed of nested zips (nested 6 levels
deep, each level 17 wide) - produces a file 4GB in size and will
reportedly crash 'most email virus checkers'"


Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Gregoire ----- Consultant en Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information
ngregoire () exaprobe com ------[ ExaProbe ]------ http://www.exaprobe.com/
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