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Successful Zip Bomb attacks occur when an application expands untrusted archive files without controlling the size of the expanded data, which can lead to denial of service. A Zip bomb is usually a malicious archive file of a few kilobytes of compressed data but turned into gigabytes of uncompressed data. To achieve this extreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio[compression ratio], attackers will compress irrelevant data (eg: a long string of repeated bytes).
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