
<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>Summary: The Deflate code can't handle more than (2^16) - 1 non-compressible blocks but it's possible to exceed this maximum with the right data. In addition, when this happens and the plugin is used (GZip / Zip) it will crash the VM.</div><div><br></div><div>Please take a look at the issues I've opened for the Deflate plugin (<a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/193">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/193</a>) and the Deflate image code (<a href="https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20973/DeflateStream-can-t-handle-input-that-exceeds-the-maximum-number-of-non-compressible-blocks">https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20973/DeflateStream-can-t-handle-input-that-exceeds-the-maximum-number-of-non-compressible-blocks</a>). I expect that this also concerns Squeak.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Max</div></body></html>