Users Affected by 19 Year Old WinRAR Flaw

WinRAR urges to update one of the worlds most popular compression software that had a flaw that 500 Million users in the past 19 years have been affected by and they finally released a patch for this flaw.

What is the vulnerability?

The UNACEv2.DLL vulnerability was discovered security researchers from Check Point Software and they noted that this impacts all WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years. The UNACEv2.DLL vulnerability allows a hacker to deliver a compromised compressed file to a user and once the user unzips the file it allows the execution of malware into the windows startup of a computer.

WinRAR has released WinRAR 5.70 Beta 2 which will address this vulnerability –tracked under the CVE-2018-20250, CVE-2018-20251, CVE-2018-20252, and CVE-2018-20253 identifiers.

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Patrick Domingues

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