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What is the new 7-Zip vulnerability CVE-2025-53816 and how can it crash systems using RAR5 files?

What is the new 7-Zip vulnerability CVE-2025-53816 and how can it crash systems using RAR5 files?

Vaishnavi Jul 21, 2025 7.6k

A newly discovered memory corruption vulnerability in 7-Zip, tracked as CVE-2025-53816, allows attackers to craft malicious RAR5 archive files that trigger heap-based buffer overflows, leading to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions. This flaw affects all 7-Zip versions prior to 25...