Re:Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered
by adamnemecek on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:28PM
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What exactly do you mean by more robust malicious file? Like an executable? Because I'm relatively OK with extracting files from dubious sources, I'm not OK with running executables from dubious sources.
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Re:Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered
by kbenson on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:42PM
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Yes, there are trust levels associated with running untrusted code, and processing untrusted data. It's possible (but often hard and annoying) to access some external/untrusted resources such as the internet and items on them without running untrusted code, it is not possible to do so without processing untrusted data (at a minimum it's going to traverse your network stack and display/disk drivers).