Comment 0 for bug 183660

Decompression bombs, which result from a small file being uncompressed into a bigger one, can freeze the current application such as a browser, virus scanner, search tool and create system instability. More information about these bombs can be found here:

http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb-vulnerability.html

Sorry if this is already known of/unpreventable, but it can really harm and freeze a computer, depending on the size of the compressed file. Examples are available off the previous link.