Re: Decompression Bombs [...missed something]
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isn't the concept same as the one I produced 3 months ago in...
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8572/info/
indeed the replica... of my old concept!
[... fine, A new class of bug! & in the wild AGAIN ]
>As a followup to http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9393/, where we
>pointed out vulnerabilities of some antivirus-gateways while
>decompressing bzip2-bombs, we were interested in the behaviour of
>various applications that process compressed data.
>
>>We've created several bombs (bzip2, gzip, zip, mime-embedded bombs, png
>and gif graphics, openoffice zip bombs). With these we tested some more
>applications like additional antivirus engines, various web browsers,
>openoffice.org, and the Gimp.
>
>As a result, much more applications as we thought crashed. The
>manufacturers of software should care more about the processing of
>untrusted input.
>
>For details see our full advisory, written by Dr. Peter Bieringer:
>http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb-vulnerability.html