Buffer Overflow in WinRAR 3.51 Add to Archive Command

Buffer Overflow in WinRAR 3.51 Add to Archive Command

CVE-2005-4474 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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