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samwillis
on Nov 12, 2012
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Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL charac...
You are describing a zip/decompression bomb. Most zip and compression libs protect against them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
gingerlime
on Nov 12, 2012
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Interesting, but the wikipedia article mentions that
antivirus libraries
protect against those. Couldn't find much on wikipedia or otherwise talking about browsers or zip libraries that have built-in protection for this...
mey
on Nov 12, 2012
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See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
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