Tag: 7-zip

A newly disclosed flaw in 7-Zip has raised fresh concerns about malicious archive handling and user-driven exploitation. CVE-2026-14266 is a heap-based buffer overflow tied to the way 7-Zip processes XZ chunked data, and successful exploitation may allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. The issue is especially important because 7-Zip remains […]

7-Zip CVE-2026-14266 RCE Risk Explained CVE-2026-14266 is a heap-based buffer overflow in 7-Zip’s XZ decompression logic. If a user opens or extracts specially crafted compressed content with an affected 7-Zip version, t

CVE-2026-48095 in 7-Zip has raised fresh concerns around malicious archive handling and user-driven exploitation. According to GitHub Security Lab, the flaw is a heap buffer write overflow in 7-Zip’s NTFS archive handler that affects version 26.00 and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or application crashes. The issue was fixed in 7-Zip 26.01, released […]