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The format-specific decompressor is part of the compressed file. Nothing here crosses a security boundary. Either the compressed file is trustworthy and therefore decompresses into a trustworthy file, or the compressed file is not trustworthy and therefor decompresses into a non-trustworthy file.

If the compressed file is malicious, it doesn't matter whether it's malicious because it originated from a malicious uncompressed file, or is malicious because it originated from a benign uncompressed file and the transformation into a compressed file introduces the malicious parts due to the bundled custom decompressor.



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