Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1459

Title: Cat Quick Heal

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1459.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Mar 21, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
79.55%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1459: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
panda 1
K
kaspersky 1
T
trend_micro 3
F
f-prot 1
A
ahnlab 1
F
free-av 1
K
k7computing 1
P
pandasecurity 1
F
frisk_software 1
F
fortinet 1
R
rising 1
T
trustix 1
P
pc_tools 1
A
avg 1
S
symantec 1
M
microsoft 2
K
kaspersky_lab 1
F
f-secure 1
A
avast 2
B
bitdefender 1
C
clamavs 1
A
anti-virus 1
E
eset_software 1
R
rising-global 1
V
virusbuster 1
I
ikarus 1
J
jiangmin 1
G
gdata-software 1
W
watchdogdevelopment 1
S
sophos 1
C
clamav 1
A
authentium 1
E
emsisoft 1
C
comodo 1
A
antiy 1
C
clam_anti-virus 1
A
alwil 1
C
cat 1
M
mcafee 2
A
avira 1
E
eset 1
N
norman 1
T
trendmicro 2
S
softwin 1
R
radware 1
N
nprotect 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/80389 http://osvdb.org/80390 http://osvdb.org/80391 http://osvdb.org/80392 http://osvdb.org/80393 http://osvdb.org/80395 http://osvdb.org/80396 http://osvdb.org/80403 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80407 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52623 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74302 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/80389 http://osvdb.org/80390 http://osvdb.org/80391 http://osvdb.org/80392 http://osvdb.org/80393 http://osvdb.org/80395 http://osvdb.org/80396 http://osvdb.org/80403 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80407 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52623 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74302
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-2012-1459 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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.