This Dangerous ‘Zip Bomb’ Can Explode 46MB File Into 4.5 Petabytes

It is possible to create ‘Zip Bomb’ — a small zip file that contains multiple layers of nested zip archives. One can say it has a malicious nature since the final unzipped version of the data could be several orders of magnitude larger than the zipped one.

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