CVE-2012-1456

N/A
Published: March 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM UTC
21 products affected across 18 vendorsEndpoint ProtectionKaspersky Anti VirusNOD32 Antivirus

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 100%

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

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (12)

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80389
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80390
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80391
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80395
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80396
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80403
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80406
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80409

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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