Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1456

Title: Cat Quick Heal

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1456.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Mar 21, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
99.93%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

R
rising 1
C
cat 1
E
eset 1
A
avg 1
A
aviatrix 1
E
eset_software 1
S
sophos 2
F
frisk_software 1
F
fortinet 1
M
mcafee 2
A
aladdin 1
W
watchdogdevelopment 1
K
kaspersky 1
C
comodo 1
P
panda 1
R
rising-global 1
N
norman 1
R
radware 1
T
trendmicro 2
A
avast 1
F
f-prot 1
P
pandasecurity 1
I
ikarus 1
E
emsisoft 1
K
kaspersky_lab 1
S
symantec 1
J
jiangmin 1
M
microsoft 1
O
opsramp 1
T
trend_micro 3
W
watchguard 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/80389 http://osvdb.org/80390 http://osvdb.org/80391 http://osvdb.org/80395 http://osvdb.org/80396 http://osvdb.org/80403 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52608 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74289 http://osvdb.org/80389 http://osvdb.org/80390 http://osvdb.org/80391 http://osvdb.org/80395 http://osvdb.org/80396 http://osvdb.org/80403 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52608 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74289
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1456 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.