CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1456

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2012-03-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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 AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, and Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR file with an appended ZIP file. 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

• aladdin esafe 7.0.17.0 • avg avg anti-virus 10.0.0.1190 • cat quick heal 11.00 • comodo comodo antivirus 7424 • emsisoft anti-malware 5.1.0.1 • eset nod32 antivirus 5795 • f-prot f-prot antivirus 4.6.2.117 • fortinet fortinet antivirus 4.2.254.0 • ikarus ikarus virus utilities t3 command line scanner 1.1.97.0 • jiangmin jiangmin antivirus 13.0.900 • kaspersky kaspersky anti-virus 7.0.0.125 • mcafee gateway 2010.1c • mcafee scan engine 5.400.0.1158 • norman norman antivirus \& antispyware 6.06.12 • pandasecurity panda antivirus 10.0.2.7 • rising-global rising antivirus 22.83.00.03 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.61.0 • symantec endpoint protection 11.0 • trendmicro housecall 9.120.0.1004 • trendmicro trend micro antivirus 9.120.0.1004

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References