Vulnerability in Aladdin Esafe
CVE-2012-1429
The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, and nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a ustar character sequence at a certain location. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.
EPSS: 0.925 (99.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Aladdin Esafe — versions 7.0.17.0
- Comodo Comodo_antivirus — versions 7424
- Emsisoft Anti-malware — versions 5.1.0.1
- F-secure F-secure_anti-virus — versions 9.0.16160.0
- Ikarus Ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner — versions 1.1.97.0
- Mcafee Gateway — versions 2010.1c
- Mcafee Scan_engine — versions 5.400.0.1158
- Nprotect Nprotect_antivirus — versions 2011-01-17.01
- Softwin Bitdefender — versions 7.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)