CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1438
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 Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a ustar 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 Office parser implementations.
Affected configurations
• comodo comodo antivirus 7425
• sophos sophos anti-virus 4.61.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- 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.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html www.ieee-security.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 www.securityfocus.com