CVE-2012-1426 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 K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565 Norman Antivirus 6.06.12 and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \42\5A\68 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/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 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52585 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74241