[33534] in bugtraq
RE: Decompression Bombs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SBNelson@thermeon.com)
Mon Feb 9 14:06:17 2004
Message-ID: <7DB0958915FDD611961400A0C98F18464E8DB1@WINTRIX.thermeon.com>
From: SBNelson@thermeon.com
To: myrond@xyxx.com, dave@realtimegaming.com
Cc: mleu@aerasec.de, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:33:46 -0800
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> 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
