In-Reply-To: <401FD489.8070602@aerasec.de> 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
