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CVE-2005-4474

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• WinRAR: 3.51

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/290
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420006/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15999

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