PT-2012-3253 · Norman+2 · Norman Antivirus+2

Published 2012-03-21 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-1428

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Quick Heal versions 11.00 Norman Antivirus version 6.06.12 Sophos Anti-Virus version 4.61.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection. This is achieved through a POSIX TAR file containing a specific character sequence (x4ax46x49x46) at a certain location in the file.

Recommendations For Quick Heal version 11.00, update to a version that fixes the TAR file parser issue. For Norman Antivirus version 6.06.12, update to a version that fixes the TAR file parser issue. For Sophos Anti-Virus version 4.61.0, update to a version that fixes the TAR file parser issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1428

Affected Products

Norman Antivirus

Quick Heal

Sophos Anti-Virus

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1428 · Security Note
• http://ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74243 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/52579 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/80409 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/80390 · Note