CWE-409Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

An example of data amplification is a "decompression bomb," a small ZIP file that can produce a large amount of data when it is decompressed.

Common consequences

• Availability→DoS: Amplification,DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart,DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU),DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)
  System resources, CPU and memory, can be quickly consumed. This can lead to poor system performance or system crash.

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