WinRAR Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities

Secunia ID	SA29407
CVE-ID	CVE-2008-7144
Release Date	19 Mar 2008
Last Change	03 Sep 2009
Criticality	Highly Critical Typically used for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to system compromise. Successful exploitation does not normally require any interaction but there are no known exploits available at the time of disclosure. Such vulnerabilities can exist in services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP or in client systems like email programs or browsers.
Solution Status	Vendor Patch
Software	WinRAR 3.x
Where	From remote "From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network. This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
Impact	DoS (Denial of Service) This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system. System access This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.
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.
Solution	Update to version 3.71.
Reported by	Oulu University Secure Programming Group
Original Advisory	http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/