WinRAR is one of the most famous archivers. There is no need to explain that it supports RAR archiving. In addition, the program can work with ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZIP, JAR, UUE, GZIP, BZIP2 and 7-Zip archives, while it has numerous very useful capabilities - encryption, support for continuous (solid) archives, in which the compression ratio can be 10 – 50% higher than with conventional compression methods, a special algorithm for compressing multimedia files, support for multi-volume archives and much more.
Winrar features
Full support for RAR and ZIP archives
Using an original, highly efficient data compression algorithm
Availability of a graphic shell with support for drag & drop technology
Ability to use the command line interface
Manage archives of other formats (CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, TAR.GZ, BZ2, TAR.BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z)
Support continuous archiving method for better compression
Support for multi-volume archives
Create self-extracting (SFX) regular and multi-volume archives using standard or additional SFX modules
Ability to restore physically damaged archives
Possibility of creating and using volumes for restoration, allowing you to recreate missing parts of multi-volume archives.
Supports Unicode encoding in file names
Additional functions (encrypting data and file names in the archive, adding archival comments, maintaining an error protocol)
Use of third-party design of the program interface in the form of separate topics
Version 7.23
Heap overflow vulnerability is fixed in RAR5 recovery volume
data reconstruction code. It affects WinRAR, RAR and UnRAR.
UnRAR.dll library doesn't include recovery volume processing
so it is not affected.
We are thankful to Arjun Basnet from Securin Labs for letting us know
about this security issue.
Symbolic link pointing outside of destination folder could be created
even without -ola switch, when extracting a specially crafted
RAR archive by WinRAR, RAR, UnRAR or UnRAR.dll library.
Further check in extraction code prevention files to such folder
even in case of multiple extraction commands, excluding the possibility
of path traversal attack for WinRAR, RAR or UnRAR based extraction.
It limits the potential threat to a case where another tool uses this
symbolic link to store files.
We are thankful to scofaild23-bnomran for letting us know about this
security issue.
7zxa.dll 7z extension library is updated to version 26.02 to include
bug and vulnerability fixes by the library developer.
Switch - river prints RAR version even if -idc is specific
in the command line, configuration file or RARINISWITCHES environment
variable. Previous -idc blocked -iver action.
Also a new line character is added to -iver output. History of changes
The license file is picked up during program installation.
If this does not happen, copy the rarreg.key license file to the folder with the installed program.
Installers with other languages can be downloaded from the official website. The medicine is suitable.