Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WinRAR, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors in the processing of archives and can be exploited to cause heap corruptions and stack-based buffer overflows via specially crafted archives.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.71.
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Solution: Update to version 3.71.
Provided and/or discovered by: Oulu University Secure Programming Group
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