CVE-2012-1461

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 92%

Description

The Gzip file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, 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, 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, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with multiple compressed streams. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip 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 (11)

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80500
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80501
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80502
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80503
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80504
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80505
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80506
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/80510

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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