libwww-perl / libwww-perl/HTTP-Message

Decoding of deflate content-encoding doesn't respect max_body_size

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Description

Responses with deflate content-encoding do not respect the max_body_size option when they are decoded. This leaves them susceptible to decompression bombs. All the other handled compression content-encodings (gzip, br, bzip2) respect the option.

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