Description
The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, G Data AntiVirus 21, 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, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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, VBA32 3.12.14.2, and VirusBuster 13.6.151.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field corresponding to that entire entry, plus part of the header of the next entry. 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: 79.5% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1482-1 ClamAV vulnerabilities
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Subscriptions

Ahnlab V3 Internet Security
Alwil Avast Antivirus
Anti-virus Vba32
Antiy Avl Sdk
Authentium Command Antivirus
Avg Avg Anti-virus
Avira Antivir
Bitdefender Bitdefender
Cat Quick Heal
Clamav Clamav
Comodo Comodo Antivirus
Emsisoft Anti-malware
Eset Nod32 Antivirus
F-prot F-prot Antivirus
F-secure F-secure Anti-virus
Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus
Gdata-software G Data Antivirus
Ikarus Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner
Jiangmin Jiangmin Antivirus
K7computing Antivirus
Kaspersky Kaspersky Anti-virus
Mcafee Gateway Scan Engine
Microsoft Security Essentials
Norman Norman Antivirus \& Antispyware
Nprotect Nprotect Antivirus
Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus
Pc Tools Pc Tools Antivirus
Rising-global Rising Antivirus
Sophos Sophos Anti-virus
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Trendmicro Housecall Trend Micro Antivirus
Virusbuster Virusbuster
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:01.248Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-1459

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-03-21T10:11:49.597

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

Link: CVE-2012-1459

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