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CVE-2012-1419

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2012-06-16 clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-1419
Phase Assigned(20120229)

Description

The TAR file parser in ClamAV 0.96.4 and Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial [aliases] 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.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products
MISC http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
BID 52572
OSVDB 80409