National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1459

Overview

The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, G Data AntiVirus 21, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, VBA32 3.12.14.2, and VirusBuster 13.6.151.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field corresponding to that entire entry, plus part of the header of the next entry. 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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External Source: XF

Name: multiple-av-tar-header-evasion(74302)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74302

External Source: BID

Name: 52623

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52623

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: 80407

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80407

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: 80393

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80393

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

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 80389

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/80389

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0833

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html