diff --git a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.test.ts b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.test.ts
index c495dcbc..1507eda5 100644
--- a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.test.ts
+++ b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.test.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ describe("gzip", () => {
         expect(() => gunzipped(new Uint8Array([...endless, ...new Uint8Array(8).fill(1)]))).toThrow("never ends");
     });
 
+    it("should refuse an extra field that claims more bytes than the data holds", () => {
+        // Arrange
+        const overlong = withHeader(4, [0xff, 0xff]);
+
+        // Act & Assert
+        expect(() => gunzipped(overlong)).toThrow("The gzip header runs past the end of the data");
+    });
+
     it("should refuse a trailer that claims more than the data can inflate to, without setting that much aside first", () => {
         // Arrange
         const lying = new Uint8Array(gzipSync(new TextEncoder().encode("abc")));
diff --git a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.ts b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.ts
index 5ed0dd05..877aec25 100644
--- a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.ts
+++ b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/gzip.ts
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ export function gunzipped(bytes: Uint8Array, limit: number = MOST_INFLATED_BYTES
     }
     const size = uint32(bytes, end + UINT32_BYTES);
     const data = inflateRaw(bytes.subarray(start, end), size, limit);
-    if (data.length !== size) {
-        throw new Error(`The gzip data holds ${data.length} bytes, not the ${size} its trailer records`);
-    }
     if (crc32(data) !== uint32(bytes, end)) {
         throw new Error("The gzip data fails its CRC-32 check");
     }
diff --git a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/zip.test.ts b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/zip.test.ts
index de4aed7c..300506d2 100644
--- a/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/zip.test.ts
+++ b/packages/dev/base/lib/api/services/helpers/files/zip.test.ts
@@ -271,6 +271,15 @@ describe("zipStoredParts limits", () => {
         expect(() => zipStoredParts(tooBig)).toThrow("4 GB");
         expect(() => zipStoredParts(tooMany)).toThrow("entries");
     });
+
+    it("should refuse a name longer than the 16-bit length field a header gives it", () => {
+        // Arrange
+        const records = [{ name: "a.bin", size: 0, crc32: 0, data: "" }, { name: "a".repeat(0x10000), size: 0, crc32: 0, data: "" }];
+
+        // Act & Assert
+        expect(() => zipStoredParts(records)).toThrow("Zip entry 1 has a name longer than 65535 bytes");
+        expect(zipEntries(zipStored([{ name: "a".repeat(0xffff), data: new Uint8Array(1) }]))[0]?.name).toHaveLength(0xffff);
+    });
 });
 
 describe("dosDateTime", () => {