CVE-2012-1459

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 100%

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 · CVE record · OSV

Products: ahnlab v3_internet_security, alwil avast_antivirus, anti-virus vba32, antiy avl_sdk, authentium command_antivirus, avg_anti-virus, avira antivir, bitdefender, cat quick_heal, clamav, comodo_antivirus, emsisoft anti-malware, eset nod32_antivirus, f-prot_antivirus, f-secure_anti-virus, fortinet_antivirus, gdata-software g_data_antivirus, ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner, jiangmin_antivirus, k7computing antivirus, kaspersky_anti-virus, mcafee gateway, mcafee scan_engine, microsoft security_essentials, norman_antivirus_&_antispyware, nprotect_antivirus, pandasecurity panda_antivirus, pc_tools_antivirus, rising-global rising_antivirus, sophos_anti-virus, symantec endpoint_protection, trendmicro housecall, trendmicro trend_micro_antivirus, virusbuster

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