CVE-2012-1457 Information

Description

The TAR file parser in 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 Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1 eSafe 7.0.17.0 F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117 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 PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5 Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 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 that exceeds the total TAR file size. 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/80389 http://osvdb.org/80391 http://osvdb.org/80392 http://osvdb.org/80393 http://osvdb.org/80395 http://osvdb.org/80396 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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52610 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74293