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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 99.9%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.9%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 2.0
4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
99.93% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264
Affected
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 · mcafee/scan engine · norman/norman antivirus \& antispyware · pandasecurity/panda antivirus · rising-global/rising antivirus · sophos/sophos anti-virus · symantec/endpoint protection · trendmicro/housecall · trendmicro/trend micro antivirus
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.