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Re:How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API R... by koolba on Monday August 28, 2017 @04:59PM (#15120010)
You can perform a denial of service attack on a naive server with a maliciously crafted PNG. Just send a zip bomb and see what happens when it decompressed it. The naive approach will crash the server when it tries to malloc successively larger buffers.

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/deflate.html

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