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Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors

From John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Newsgroups comp.compression
Subject Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors
Date 2016-01-31 22:14 +0000
Organization Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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>> Someone must have looked at this for DEFLATE, since it's so old,
>> and maybe for other compressors.  Any suggestions where to look?
>> 
>> (Note that DEFLATE is gzip, not ZIP, so the attacks on ZIP files
>> with bogus directories and the like aren't relevant.)
>
>Have you tried fuzzing your preferred decompression library?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing

No, I was hoping that since zlib has been around for over a decade,
someone might have looked at this issue already.

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Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2016-01-31 21:16 +0000
  Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-01-31 23:11 +0100
    Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2016-01-31 22:14 +0000
    Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2016-02-01 01:31 +0000
      Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-31 22:20 -0600
        Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2016-02-02 07:12 -0800
          Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-03 15:46 -0600
            Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2016-02-15 13:32 +0200
              Re: Worse case decompression of deflate and other compressors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-20 21:29 -0600

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