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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>
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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
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From: 3APA3A [mailto:3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:50 AM
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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.