Gzip Bomb

Definitions

1. A highly compressed file crafted to expand to an enormous size when decompressed, consuming storage, memory, or CPU and potentially causing denial of service. It is a variant of the broader decompression-bomb technique, using gzip as the delivery format.

   In plain English: A compressed file designed to explode into huge data and overwhelm a system when opened.

   Example: "The upload pipeline froze because it unpacked a gzip bomb without expansion limits."

Related Terms

• Rootkit
• Credential Stuffing
• Red Team
• Flood Attack
• Keepalive Attack
• Low and Slow Attack
• Ping Flood
• Resource Exhaustion