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CVE-2012-1425 Detail

Description

The TAR file parser in Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, 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, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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 POSIX TAR file with an initial \50\4B\03\04 character sequence. 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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://osvdb.org/80389
http://osvdb.org/80389
http://osvdb.org/80391
http://osvdb.org/80391
http://osvdb.org/80392
http://osvdb.org/80392
http://osvdb.org/80395
http://osvdb.org/80395
http://osvdb.org/80396
http://osvdb.org/80396
http://osvdb.org/80403
http://osvdb.org/80403
http://osvdb.org/80409
http://osvdb.org/80409
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-1425
NVD Published Date:
03/21/2012
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE