A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.
  • @[email protected]English
    -10•1 year ago

    WinRar decompresses directly to destination. All other I have tried does it to like c:/tmp (can probably change that though) then copy it over, which is impractical or even impossible with really large files.

    That’s about it though IMO.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 year ago

      You can decompress directly to the destination with 7zip as well. You just need to use the “extract” button instead of doing a drag and drop.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•1 year ago

        Cool thanks for the info, I did it by script but then trere is maybe some option I didn’t find…

      • @[email protected]English
        -10•1 year ago

        Downvote all you want, but you can configure WinRAR to decompress directly to source.

        I had TB files and just no space to have both a copy and the result, IIRC the speed was also obviously better without copying.