National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1456

Overview

The TAR file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, 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, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, 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, and Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR file with an appended ZIP file. 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

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External Source: XF

Name: multiple-av-zip-archive-evasion(74289)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74289

External Source: BID

Name: 52608

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52608

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: 80406

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80406

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80403

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80403

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80396

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80396

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80395

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80395

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80391

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80391

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80390

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80390

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80389

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80389