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 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 99.9% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0035)
- Published
- March 21, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0035 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- aladdin / esafe
- alwil / avast antivirus
- alwil / avast antivirus
- anti-virus / vba32
- antiy / avl sdk
- authentium / command antivirus
- avg / avg anti-virus
- avira / antivir
- bitdefender / bitdefender
- cat / quick heal
- clamav / clamav
- emsisoft / anti-malware
- eset / nod32 antivirus
- f-prot / f-prot antivirus
- gdata-software / g data antivirus
- ikarus / ikarus virus utilities t3 command line scanner
- jiangmin / jiangmin antivirus
- k7computing / antivirus
- kaspersky / kaspersky anti-virus
- mcafee / gateway
- mcafee / scan engine
- microsoft / security essentials
- norman / norman antivirus & antispyware
- pc tools / pc tools antivirus
- rising-global / rising antivirus
- symantec / endpoint protection
- trendmicro / housecall
- trendmicro / trend micro antivirus
- virusbuster / virusbuster
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Symantec™ Endpoint Protection Version 11.0 - Symantec Corporation - Common Criteria 383-4-84 - archived
References
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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