A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.

  • style99@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    The thing is, you only need WinRAR if you were creating an archive. You never need it for extracting archives. For that, you just use pretty much any other archiver.

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      11 months ago

      Have you found one that can reliably extract SAP BusinessObjects installation files from multi-part installers? 7-zip chokes.