Description: Peter Winter-Smith of NGSSoftware has reported a vulnerability in WinRAR, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "Repair Archive" feature.
Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into using the "Repair Archive" feature on a specially crafted archive file.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.40 and prior.
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