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.
However, from a practical perspective, deceiving users into performing the required action shouldn’t be overly challenging, and given the vast size of WinRAR’s user base
Excuse me, but “vast” size of WinRAR’s user base? I didn’t know WinRAR even had any users left.
Which part of the world is this, if you don’t mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven’t come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).
That looks quite interesting, seems like they’ve even got quite an extensive list of plugins - looks like may be even better than Midnight Commander. :o
I used it last time around… 15 years ago to apply VKP patches on my Sony Ericsson phones :P like making my K750i into a ‘W750i’ with W800i software, adding GFX and Acoustic patches…
Excuse me, but “vast” size of WinRAR’s user base? I didn’t know WinRAR even had any users left.
9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It’s amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start.
I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around… I don’t know, a year ago?
Which part of the world is this, if you don’t mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven’t come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).
Am in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.
WinRAR was what I used in the 2000s. Around 2011, 7-zip was my goto. I haven’t looked back since.
I wasn’t aware of pea-zip until this thread
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I’m from Europe, in the embrace of the Carpathian Mountains :)
before WinRAR, people used WinZIP here in the '00s (at least Windows folks). Again, a strange choice, I know.
There is that one last user
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Well, even FAR manager which they’ve open-souced long time ago is still maintained 😀 Good thing they didn’t discover this bug in 2000s!
That looks quite interesting, seems like they’ve even got quite an extensive list of plugins - looks like may be even better than Midnight Commander. :o
I’m still using sweet FAR Manager, absolute baller of a software.
Ah, FAR manager.
I used it last time around… 15 years ago to apply VKP patches on my Sony Ericsson phones :P like making my K750i into a ‘W750i’ with W800i software, adding GFX and Acoustic patches…
Still use it out of habit!