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<p align="center"><img src="https://brotli.org/brotli.svg" alt="Brotli" width="64"></p>
+# SECURITY NOTE
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+Please consider updating brotli to version 1.0.8 (latest).
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+Version 1.0.8 contains a fix to "integer overflow" problem. This happens when "one-shot" decoding API is used (or input chunk for streaming API is not limited), input size (chunk size) is larger than 2GiB, and input contains uncompressed blocks. After the overflow happens, `memcpy` is invoked with a gigantic `num` value, that will likely cause the crash.
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### Introduction
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data