On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Artur Fijałkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/11/16 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> If someone creates a good sanitizer that only allows normal ODT files
>> without the risk of smuggling hidden program code, then we could allow
>> the OpenOffice files again.  I believe it would be desirable to do so,
>> as rejecting the editable form is highly undesirable.
>
> But still zip file could have decompression bomb or is there any
> universal method of avoiding that?

Disallow recursive zips (not needed for any of these formats), and
check the directory before uncompressing, disallowing anything that
decompresses to enormous sizes.  The combination should be sufficient
for that particular issue.
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