WinRAR patches 19-year-old security vulnerability that put millions at risk

WinRAR has patched a 19-year-old security vulnerability that allowed attackers to extract malicious software to anywhere on your hard drive. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies, who realised that WinRAR’s support for the effectively defunct ACE archive format meant that it was still relying on an insecure and dated DLL file from 2006.The researchers have compiled a lengthy blog post explaining how they discovered the bug, but a short video