Decompression bomb
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A decompression bomb is a type of denial-of-service attack, in which a small compressed file expands to an enormous size, requiring large amounts of system resources and possibly causing the software or the entire system to hang. All major web browsers are vulnerable to the attack, which may be launched merely by visiting a malicious website using the standard gzip transfer encoding.[1]
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