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decompression bomb

noun

Definitions

  1. A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a…

    A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a large amount of memory and disk space when decompressed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decompression bomb. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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