National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1453

Overview

The CAB file parser in Dr.Web 5.0.2.03300, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, CA eTrust Vet Antivirus 36.1.8511, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a CAB file with a modified coffFiles field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different CAB parser implementations.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 52621

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52621

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: 80489

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80489

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80488

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80488

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80487

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80487

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80486

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80486

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80485

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80485

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80484

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80484

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80483

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80483

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80482

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80482