CVE-2012-1459
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.
- 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
- ahnlab:v3_internet_security
- alwil:avast_antivirus
- anti-virus:vba32
- antiy:avl_sdk
- authentium:command_antivirus
- avg:avg_anti-virus
- avira:antivir
- bitdefender:bitdefender
- cat:quick_heal
- clamav:clamav
- comodo:comodo_antivirus
- emsisoft:anti-malware
- eset:nod32_antivirus
- f-prot:f-prot_antivirus
- f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus
- fortinet:fortinet_antivirus
- gdata-software:g_data_antivirus
- ikarus:ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner
- jiangmin:jiangmin_antivirus
- k7computing:antivirus
- kaspersky:kaspersky_anti-virus
- mcafee:gateway
- mcafee:scan_engine
- microsoft:security_essentials
- norman:norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
- nprotect:nprotect_antivirus
- pandasecurity:panda_antivirus
- pc_tools:pc_tools_antivirus
- rising-global:rising_antivirus
- sophos:sophos_anti-virus
- symantec:endpoint_protection
- trendmicro:housecall
- trendmicro:trend_micro_antivirus
- virusbuster:virusbuster