http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3839743&forum_id=
34617
Eric, thanks for that... I must have missed that email this morning
since the topic didn't quite trigger anything in my brain... More along
the lines of I thought it was a bug report... Ie: "bzip bombs" as in
blows up
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:35:07AM -0600, Tom Walsh wrote:
> I saw an article on bigtraq today that discussed an interesting vectored
> attack against anti-virus software and was curious if any type of checks
> were in place for clamav.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=383974
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 at 9:35:07 -0600, Tom Walsh wrote:
> I saw an article on bigtraq today that discussed an interesting vectored
> attack against anti-virus software and was curious if any type of checks
> were in place for clamav.
>
> Basically a decompression bomb is a zero padded file of extr
I saw an article on bigtraq today that discussed an interesting vectored
attack against anti-virus software and was curious if any type of checks
were in place for clamav.
Basically a decompression bomb is a zero padded file of extreme size
(100GB) that is compressed using bzip, gzip, zip, etc...