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RE: Decompression Bombs

From: SBNelson () thermeon com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:33:46 -0800

dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile count=10000&&gzip testfile&&ls -la testfile

No need to fill up your own disk -- do this instead:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=10000 | gzip - > testfile.gz

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Decompression Bombs Matthias Leu (Feb 03)
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