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zip bomb

zip bomb noun: a malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.

Noun

zip bomb (plural zip bombs)

  1. A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.
    • This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb whose compression ratio surpasses the DEFLATE limit of 1032. It works by overlapping files inside the zip container, in order to reference a "kernel" of highly compressed data in multiple files, without making multiple copies of it. The...2019 July 2, David Fifield, “A better zip bomb”, in bamsoftware.com, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025
    Synonyms:
    zip of death

Synonyms of zip bomb

Forms of zip bomb

pluralzip bombs
alternative formzipbomb

Questions about zip bomb

What does zip bomb mean?
Zip bomb means a malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.
What part of speech is zip bomb?
Zip bomb is a noun.
What is the plural of zip bomb?
The plural of zip bomb is zip bombs.

Words near zip bomb in the dictionary

  1. ziotards
  2. zioturd
  3. zioturds
  4. Ziou
  5. zip
  6. zip bomb
  7. zip bombs
  8. zip code
  9. zip coded
  10. zip codes
  11. zip coding

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