CVE-2012-1422: Cat Quick Heal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 94.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, 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 ITSF 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
• Eset NOD32 Antivirus: version 5795 only
• Norman Norman Antivirus & Antispyware: version 6.06.12 only
• Rising-Global Rising Antivirus: version 22.83.00.03 only

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