A newly disclosed vulnerability in 7-Zip could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening a specially crafted XZ-compressed file. Tracked as CVE-2026-14266 and identified by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative as ZDI-26-444 (ZDI-CAN-30169), the flaw is a heap-based buffer overflow in the archive utility’s handling of XZ chunked data. The vulnerability […]

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