National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1424

Overview

The TAR file parser in Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \19\04\00\10 character sequence at a certain location. 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html

Hyperlink:http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80409

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80409

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80392

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80392

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80391

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80391

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80390

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80390