19-Year-Old WinRAR Flaw Plagues 500 Million Users

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Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR.

Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious 19-year-old security flaw that was discovered on its platform, potentially impacting 500 million users.

The path-traversal vulnerability, which WinRAR fixed in January, could allow bad actors to remotely execute malicious code on victims’ machines – simply by persuading them to open a file, researchers with Check Point Software said on Wednesday.

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