CVE-2005-4474
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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affected products (2)
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references (6)
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- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999enisa_euvd
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290nvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threadednvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999nvd
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