"zip bomb" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2019 July 2, David Fifield, “A better zip bomb”, in bamsoftware.com, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:",
          "text": "This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb whose compression ratio surpasses the DEFLATE limit of 1032. It works by overlapping files inside the zip container, in order to reference a \"kernel\" of highly compressed data in multiple files, without making multiple copies of it. The zip bomb's output size grows quadratically in the input size; i.e., the compression ratio gets better as the bomb gets bigger.",
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        "A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression."
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        "(computing) A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression."
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        "(computing) A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression."
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