7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Malicious RAR5 Files Crash Systems

7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Malicious RAR5 Files Crash Systems A critical denial-of-service vulnerability has been discovered in 7-Zip that allows attackers to crash systems using specially crafted RAR5 archive files. The vulnerability, tracked asCVE-2025-53816, affects the popular compression software’s RAR5 decoder and can lead to memory corruption and system crashes when processing malicious archives. Technical Details of the Vulnerability Security researcher Jaroslav Lobačevskiidentifiedthe fla...

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