CVE-2012-1456
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.
- EPSS
- 100% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- aladdin:esafe
- avg:avg_anti-virus
- cat:quick_heal
- comodo:comodo_antivirus
- emsisoft:anti-malware
- eset:nod32_antivirus
- f-prot:f-prot_antivirus
- fortinet:fortinet_antivirus
- ikarus:ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner
- jiangmin:jiangmin_antivirus
- kaspersky:kaspersky_anti-virus
- mcafee:gateway
- mcafee:scan_engine
- norman:norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
- pandasecurity:panda_antivirus
- rising-global:rising_antivirus
- sophos:sophos_anti-virus
- symantec:endpoint_protection
- trendmicro:housecall
- trendmicro:trend_micro_antivirus