Security Advisory

CVE-2005-4474

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-12-22 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:46:05
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the "Add to archive" command in WinRAR 3.51 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into adding a file whose filename contains a non-default code page and non-ANSI characters, as demonstrated using a Chinese filename, possibly due to buffer expansion when using the WideCharToMultiByte API. NOTE: it is not clear whether this problem can be exploited for code execution. If not, then perhaps the user-assisted nature of the attack should exclude the issue from inclusion in CVE.