Description
The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \42\5A\68 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.
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
- AUTHENTIUM
- 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
authentium : command_antiviruscat : quick_healf-prot : f-prot_antivirusk7computing : antivirusnorman : norman_antivirus_\&_antispywarerising-global : rising_antivirus
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