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WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 73 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Just use 7-Zip

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (13 children)

    if you’re on Windows use NanaZip. 7Zip refuses to use modern compression and encryption algorithms or integrate with the new Windows APIs. NanaZip is a fork that does just that.

    https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Windows?! What?!

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

    7-zip doesn’t exist on Linux. p7zip does, which hasn’t been updated since 2016

    EDIT: It does, I stand corrected

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    7zip does exist on Linux:

    https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

    p7zip itself is out of date but updated forks exist. With 7zip having an up to date official version though there's no point to it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks, will check this out!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Of course! 7-zip is absolutely a software cornerstone, but as in all things open source it’s now better as it’s forked version with more active community efforts taking place

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