Vulnerabilities in archive formats

University of Oulu in Finland has researched vulnerabilities in certain archive formats.

These formats are ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, LHA, RAR, TAR, ZIP and ZOO.

Vulnerabilities can cause buffer overflow or even Denial-of-Service (DoS) against some server.

This problem is quite wide-ranged as archives are used eg. in backups, office programs and in different operating systems. List of vulnerable programs can be found
from link below.

Read more here