▲ 640 ▼ WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives (www.bleepingcomputer.com) submitted 3 years ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 106 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Tick_Dracy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kbotc@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago RAR != ZIP. Fell free to read a stack overflow about that situation Your choices are basically “rewrite the entire file” or “leave the original file in place, do an append and try and hide the old file.” Editing old data in most streaming file formats with inline metadata is basically impossible because they compact the data as much as possible and internally refer to offsets. Appending is trivial, editing is very hard if not downright impossible. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago RAR != ZIP. Fell free to read a stack overflow about that situation Your choices are basically “rewrite the entire file” or “leave the original file in place, do an append and try and hide the old file.” Editing old data in most streaming file formats with inline metadata is basically impossible because they compact the data as much as possible and internally refer to offsets. Appending is trivial, editing is very hard if not downright impossible. permalink fedilink source parent