CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1421
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, and AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial MSCF character sequence. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different TAR parser implementations.
Affected configurations
• cat quick heal 11.00
• norman norman antivirus \& antispyware 6.06.12
• rising-global rising antivirus 22.83.00.03
• symantec endpoint protection 11.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/80409 osvdb.org
- http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html www.ieee-security.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 www.securityfocus.com
- http://osvdb.org/80409 osvdb.org
- http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html www.ieee-security.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 www.securityfocus.com