[tor-bugs] #15443 [Tor Browser]: decompression bomb
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#15443: decompression bomb
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Reporter: ousado | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor Browser | Version:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
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A malicious exit node could inject decompression bombs into most http
traffic, and thus cause great annoyance to Tor Browser users. In that
regard they're a more severe issue than for Firefox itself, since there's
a relatively easy way to affect many users at once.
This is somewhat a duplicate of
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1618
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