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Can a zip file be executable?

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Mar 15, 20263876 views
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Can a zip file executable? For instance can you have a virus in the form of a zip. Obviously a virus could be inside a zip file but can the actual zip execute? The reason I ask is I have a website that currently allows only jpg, jpeg, png and gif file extensions and I had an idea today to allow peo…

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Theoretically, some tools for uncompressing zip files may have vulnerabilities that can lead to some code execution. However, it is really unlikely that it is your case. Uncompressing tools for your programming language probably don’t have such vuln…

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