Episode 132: Archive Testing Methodology with Mathias Karlsson

Episode 132: Archive Testing Methodology with Mathias Karlsson

Episode 132: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Justin Gardner is joined by Mathias Karlsson to discuss vulnerabilities associated with archives. They talk about his new tool, Archive Alchemist, and explore topics like the significance of Unicode paths, symlinks, and TAR before they end up talking about Charsets again..

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

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====== Resources ======

Archive Alchemist

Hacking Livestream #53: The ZIP file format

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:10:04) Archive Alchemist

(00:36:05) Unicode Extensions, normalization, and confusion attacks on Zip parsers

(00:48:44) Character Sets

(01:01:49) 7zip & File Names

(01:06:44) Path Traversal, Symlinks & Identifying Techniques

(01:36:05) Hardlinks and TAR

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