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RE: SECURITY.NNOV: special devices access in multiple archivers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Les Ault)
Mon Jul 16 13:06:40 2001

From: "Les Ault" <aultl@home.com>
To: "3APA3A" <3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 03:13:20 -0400
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I am running Win2k w/Sp1,  WinZip 8.0 (3105) locks up, just right click and
close the window on the taskbar... however WinAce Archiver 2.03 locks up and
must be killed via the task manager.

Les Ault


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	3APA3A [mailto:3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU]
Sent:	Friday, July 13, 2001 3:50 AM
To:	bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject:	SECURITY.NNOV: special devices access in multiple archivers

Hello,

Topic:                    Special devices access in multiple archivers
Author:                   3APA3A <3APA3A@security.nnov.ru>
Platform:                 Windows
Affected  Software:       WinZIP Computing's WinZIP 8.0, PKWare PkZip
                          4.0, RARSoft WinRar 2.80
Risk:                     average
Released:                 July, 5, 2001
SECURITY.NNOV advisories: http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories

Background:

Archive  extraction  is  usually  treated  by users as safe operation.
There are a lot of problem with files extraction though.



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