Patches for two high-severity ZIP parsing flaws have quietly been available since July.
If you updated at some point since July 5th you already have the update.
Ah thanks, I thought I remembered there being a big vulnerability earlier this year and I updated all my machines then
One of the big issues with 7-Zip is that it only really updates manually. There is literally no update functionality baked in, at least in the version I’ve been running.
2026
There is literally no update functionality baked in
Wonderful
Just
run apt update && apt upgraderedownload from the website and rerun the installer.I’m happy to do that, but without any update notification a new update will likely go unnoticed for some time.
There is literally no update functionality baked in
Good, that’s what package managers are for.





