Vulnerability in Cat Quick_heal
CVE-2012-1428
The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \4a\46\49\46 character sequence at a certai…
EPSS: 0.041 (88.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Cat Quick_heal — versions 11.00
- Norman Norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware — versions 6.06.12
- Sophos Sophos_anti-virus — versions 4.61.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- 52579 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- multiple-av-tar-evasion-cve20121428(74243) (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- 80409 (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- 80390 (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)