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Two major security vulnerabilities discovered in 7-Zip, affecting Windows users

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Two major security vulnerabilities discovered in 7-Zip, affecting Windows users

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Windows users should update 7-Zip to version 25.00 or later to fix two significant “path traversal” vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-11001 and CVE-2025-11002) that can allow remote code execution, caused by the handling of symbolic links in ZIP files.

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7z on Linux is all good though?
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  I guess? It’s to do with Unix-Windows path conversions, so I assume Unix-like systems aren’t affected.

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