CVE-2012-1426

medium

Published 2012-03-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
authentium	command_antivirus	`5.2.11.5`
cat	quick_heal	`11.00`
f-prot	f-prot_antivirus	`4.6.2.117`
k7computing	antivirus	`9.77.3565`
norman	norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware	`6.06.12`
rising-global	rising_antivirus	`22.83.00.03`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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