CVE-2012-1442

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 ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF 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
aladdin	esafe	`7.0.17.0`
antiy	avl_sdk	`2.0.3.7`
cat	quick_heal	`11.00`
f-secure	f-secure_anti-virus	`9.0.16160.0`
fortinet	fortinet_antivirus	`4.2.254.0`
kaspersky	kaspersky_anti-virus	`7.0.0.125`
mcafee	gateway	`2010.1c`
mcafee	scan_engine	`5.400.0.1158`
pandasecurity	panda_antivirus	`10.0.2.7`
rising-global	rising_antivirus	`22.83.00.03`
sophos	sophos_anti-virus	`4.61.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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