SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-1457

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, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, G Data AntiVirus…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 98.3%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 98.3%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The TAR file parser in 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, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, 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, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, 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 that exceeds the total TAR file size. 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
98.33% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264
Affected
aladdin/esafe · 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 · emsisoft/anti-malware · eset/nod32 antivirus · f-prot/f-prot 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 · mcafee/scan engine · +8 more
Source
cve@mitre.org

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