Winrar Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities

[TCH-Thomas]

From: Secunia

secunia.com/advisories/29407/

 

Rating: Highly critical

 

Description:

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WinRAR, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

 

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors in the processing of archives and can be exploited to cause heap corruptions and stack-based buffer overflows via specially crafted archives.

 

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

 

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.71.

 

Solution:

Update to version 3.71 from: rarsoft.com

[TCH-Bruce]

Thanks Thomas