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Run this to create a 40K file which expands to 1GiB yes | head -n536870912 | bzip2 -c > /tmp/foo.bz2 I would imagine you could do something really creative
by ericfrederich 9y ago
Run this to create a 40K file which expands to 1GiB
yes | head -n536870912 | bzip2 -c > /tmp/foo.bz2
I would imagine you could do something really creative with ImageMagick to create a giant PNG file as well that'll make browsers, viewers, editors crash as well.
- tedunangst 9y agoPNG has dimensions in the header so the decoder should know when it's decompressed enough.
- Hupriene 9y agoYou can also make archives that contain themselves: https://research.swtch.com/zip https://research.swtch.com/zip
- Sean1708 9y agoYou can take it a step further using Zip Bombs[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb