4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2012-1457
Avira AntiVir TAR File Length Overflow Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

March 21, 2012, 10:11 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 1:37 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2012-1457 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-1457 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Trendmicro housecall
2 Trendmicro trend_micro_antivirus
1 Mcafee gateway
2 Mcafee scan_engine
1 Bitdefender bitdefender
1 Eset nod32_antivirus
1 Clamav clamav
1 Aladdin esafe
1 K7computing antivirus
1 Norman norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
1 Rising-global rising_antivirus
1 Virusbuster virusbuster
1 F-prot f-prot_antivirus
1 Symantec endpoint_protection
1 Microsoft security_essentials
1 Alwil avast_antivirus
1 Emsisoft anti-malware
1 Kaspersky kaspersky_anti-virus
1 Jiangmin jiangmin_antivirus
1 Avira antivir
1 Pc_tools pc_tools_antivirus
1 Authentium command_antivirus
1 Avg avg_anti-virus
1 Cat quick_heal
1 Ikarus ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner
1 Antiy avl_sdk
1 Anti-virus vba32
1 Gdata-software g_data_antivirus

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

ClamAV

Makefile Shell M4

Updated: 7 years, 8 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 26, 2017, 12:37 a.m. This repo has been linked 9 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2012-1457 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2012-1457 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80389
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80391
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80392
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80393
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80395
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80396
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80403
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80406
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80407
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80409
    Added Reference http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
    Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52610
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74293
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 18, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 29, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74293 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74293 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2012

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-1457 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-1457 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

97.38 }} -0.03%

score

0.99936

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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