https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/microsoft_windows_defender_rar_bug/
A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an open-source archiving tool Microsoft adopted for its own use.
[...] Apparently, Microsoft forked that version of unrar and incorporated the component into its operating system's antivirus engine. That forked code was then modified so that all signed integer variables were converted to unsigned variables, causing knock-on problems with mathematical comparisons. This in turn left the software vulnerable to memory corruption errors, which can crash the antivirus package or allow malicious code to potentially execute.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:06AM (1 child)
Read 5.25 360K floppies? Yup. Surprisingly, I still can do that.
Still have several dozen disks as well. All old DOS stuff.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:34PM
I can see how you may read 5 of those old disk. But how do you read a quarter disk? :-)