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compressed.md: might generate a huge amount of bytes - #20028

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@bagder bagder commented Dec 19, 2025

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a security warning to the --compressed option documentation to alert users about potential decompression bomb attacks, where small compressed transfers can expand to very large amounts of data when decompressed.

  • Adds a warning paragraph about the risk of decompression causing tiny transfers to generate huge amounts of bytes

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@bagder bagder closed this in 26d3b9e Dec 19, 2025
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