RE: BZIP2 bomb question

[Steve Wray <steve.wray () paradise net nz>]

> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Gregh

> Please note I am not a good programmer here but here goes:

Hey, I'm not a programmer at all! (by choice; I like my wrists :)

> I am wondering why, for those who HAVE to auto unpack, a 
> script cannot be written which, upon receipt of an archive of any
sort, 
> inspects it for, as an example, 100K of the same character repeated
(keeping in 
> mind that the NULL character, chr$(7) etc have all been used for
compressed 
> bombs) and if there *IS* such a file, move the file to some safe
location 

You mean like...
unpack it to sdtout, passing this through a filter,
eg. involving head, grep, wc (maybe even perl)
and then send the final stdout to /dev/null?


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