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    CVE-2012-1456

    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:Mar 21, 2012
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Mar 21, 2012
    EPSS Score:0.18248
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Aladdin
    Product
    Esafe
    Vendor
    Avg
    Product
    Avg Anti-virus
    Vendor
    Cat
    Product
    Quick Heal
    Vendor
    Comodo
    Product
    Comodo Antivirus
    Vendor
    Emsisoft
    Product
    Anti-malware
    Vendor
    Eset
    Product
    Nod32 Antivirus
    Vendor
    F-prot
    Product
    F-prot Antivirus
    Vendor
    Fortinet
    Product
    Fortinet Antivirus
    Vendor
    Ikarus
    Product
    Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner
    Vendor
    Jiangmin
    Product
    Jiangmin Antivirus
    Vendor
    Kaspersky
    Product
    Kaspersky Anti-virus
    Vendor
    Mcafee
    Product
    Gateway
    Vendor
    Mcafee
    Product
    Scan Engine
    Vendor
    Norman
    Product
    Norman Antivirus \& Antispyware
    Vendor
    Pandasecurity
    Product
    Panda Antivirus
    Vendor
    Rising-global
    Product
    Rising Antivirus
    Vendor
    Sophos
    Product
    Sophos Anti-virus
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Endpoint Protection
    Vendor
    Trendmicro
    Product
    Housecall
    Vendor
    Trendmicro
    Product
    Trend Micro Antivirus

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High