CVE-2012-1420 Information

Description

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00 Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5 F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117 Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0 K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125 Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 NOD32 Antivirus 5795 Norman Antivirus 6.06.12 Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \7fELF character sequence. 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.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/80403 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80407 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005