A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Rarlab WinRAR 3.60 Beta8 (File Compression Software). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the SFX module in WinRAR before 3.60 beta 8 has unspecified vectors and impact.

The weakness was presented 07/05/2006 by posidron (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-3912 since 07/27/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at milw0rm.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.60 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27815) and Exploit-DB (1992). See 966, 1784, 1785 and 2385 for similar entries.

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