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		vacri on July 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Defending a website with Zip bombs Interesting, on FF54 the test link pegs a CPU but the memory doesn't rise. Eventually it stops and CPU returns to normal. But then I did a 'view source', and the memory use rose until the browser got oomkilled (20GB free ram + swap)

bluedino on July 6, 2017 [–]

I wonder is the browser is smart enough to not decompress when viewing or just uses it at a stream?

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