Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1461

Title: Norman Norman Antivirus \& Antispyware

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1461.

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)
91.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1461: The Gzip file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, 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, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, 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, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with multiple compressed streams. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip parser implementations.

Impacted Vendors

A
aviatrix 1
A
authentium 1
E
eset 1
K
k7computing 1
O
opsramp 1
F
fortinet 1
M
mcafee 2
N
norman 1
F
f-secure 1
T
trustix 1
S
symantec 1
A
anti-virus 1
W
watchdogdevelopment 1
S
softwin 1
R
rising 1
B
bitdefender 1
I
ikarus 1
E
emsisoft 1
R
rising-global 1
A
avg 1
M
microsoft 1
K
kaspersky 1
T
trend_micro 3
R
radware 1
T
trendmicro 2
E
eset_software 1
K
kaspersky_lab 1
S
sophos 2
J
jiangmin 2
A
avast 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/80500 http://osvdb.org/80501 http://osvdb.org/80502 http://osvdb.org/80503 http://osvdb.org/80504 http://osvdb.org/80505 http://osvdb.org/80506 http://osvdb.org/80510 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52626 http://osvdb.org/80500 http://osvdb.org/80501 http://osvdb.org/80502 http://osvdb.org/80503 http://osvdb.org/80504 http://osvdb.org/80505 http://osvdb.org/80506 http://osvdb.org/80510 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52626
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-2012-1461 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.