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zipbomb

zipbomb is the alternative form 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

Forms of zipbomb

pluralzipbombs

Questions about zipbomb

What is zipbomb the alternative form of?
Zipbomb is the alternative form of zip bomb.

Words near zipbomb in the dictionary

  1. zip-wire
  2. zip-wires
  3. zipa
  4. Zipaquirá
  5. zipas
  6. zipbomb
  7. zipbombs
  8. zipcode
  9. zipcoded
  10. zipcodes
  11. zipcuffs

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