CVE-2012-1457
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…
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0833 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 80406 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80393 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 80403 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80389 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80391 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80409 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80396 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80392 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 52610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 80407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 80395 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- multiple-av-tar-length-evasion(74293) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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