National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1446

Overview

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, CA eTrust Vet Antivirus 36.1.8511, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified encoding field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 52600

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52600

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: 80431

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80431

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80430

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80430

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80428

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80428

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80427

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80427

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80426

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80426