CVE-2012-1421: Cat Quick Heal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 89.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, and AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial MSCF 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.

Affected products

• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• Norman Norman Antivirus & Antispyware: version 6.06.12 only
• Rising-Global Rising Antivirus: version 22.83.00.03 only
• Symantec Endpoint Protection: version 11.0 only

Published 2012-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.