4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2012-1461
AVG Anti-Virus to VBA32 Gzip Parser Compression Stream Bypass Vulnerability
Description

The Gzip file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, 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, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with multiple compressed streams. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip parser implementations.

INFO

Published Date :

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

Last Modified :

Nov. 6, 2012, 5:09 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-1461 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 K7computing antivirus
1 Norman norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
1 Rising-global rising_antivirus
1 Symantec endpoint_protection
1 F-secure f-secure_anti-virus
1 Sophos sophos_anti-virus
1 Emsisoft anti-malware
1 Kaspersky kaspersky_anti-virus
1 Jiangmin jiangmin_antivirus
1 Authentium command_antivirus
1 Avg avg_anti-virus
1 Fortinet fortinet_antivirus
1 Ikarus ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner
1 Anti-virus vba32

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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

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

97.25 }} -0.05%

score

0.99883

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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