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WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years impacted by severe security flaw
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Quote:WinRAR, one of the world's most popular Windows file compression applications, has patched last month a severe security flaw that can be abused to hijack users' systems just by tricking a WinRAR user into opening a malicious archive.

The vulnerability, discovered last year by security researchers from Check Point Software, impacts all WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years.

On its website, the WinRAR team boasts of having a userbase of over 500 million users, all of whom are most likely impacted. The good news for all WinRAR users is that WinRAR devs released an update to fix the issue last month.

According to a Check Point technical write-up that takes a deep dive into WinRAR's inner workings, the vulnerability resides in the UNACEV2.DLL library included with all WinRAR versions.

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:arrow: Other article and the video inside as well : WinRAR has a critical security bug: here is the fix - gHacks Tech News
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