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.
Published: 2012-03-21
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 18.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Aladdin Esafe
Avg Avg Anti-virus
Cat Quick Heal
Comodo Comodo Antivirus
Emsisoft Anti-malware
Eset Nod32 Antivirus
F-prot F-prot Antivirus
Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus
Ikarus Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner
Jiangmin Jiangmin Antivirus
Kaspersky Kaspersky Anti-virus
Mcafee Gateway Scan Engine
Norman Norman Antivirus \& Antispyware
Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus
Rising-global Rising Antivirus
Sophos Sophos Anti-virus
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Trendmicro Housecall Trend Micro Antivirus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:00.493Z

Reserved: 2012-02-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1456

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-03-21T10:11:49.240

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-1456

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