CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1428
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, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \4a\46\49\46 character sequence at a certain location. 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
• sophos sophos anti-virus 4.61.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/80390 osvdb.org
- 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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52579 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74243 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/80390 osvdb.org
- 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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52579 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74243 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com