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zip bombs

zip bombs is the plural of zip bomb.

Meaning of zip bomb

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

Questions about zip bombs

What is zip bombs the plural of?
Zip bombs is the plural of zip bomb.

Words near zip bombs in the dictionary

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

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