Description
The TAR file parser in Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \19\04\00\10 character sequence at a certain location. 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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- ANTIY
- Published
- 3/21/2012
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
antiy : avl_sdkcat : quick_healjiangmin : jiangmin_antivirusnorman : norman_antivirus_\&_antispywarepc_tools : pc_tools_antivirussophos : sophos_anti-virus
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