CVE-2012-1425: Antiy Avl SDK

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 93.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TAR file parser in Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, and Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \50\4B\03\04 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

• Antiy Avl SDK: version 2.0.3.7 only
• Avira Antivir: version 7.11.1.163 only
• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• Emsisoft Anti-Malware: version 5.1.0.1 only
• Eset NOD32 Antivirus: version 5795 only
• Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus: version 4.2.254.0 only
• Ikarus Ikarus Virus Utilities t3 Command Line Scanner: version 1.1.97.0 only
• Jiangmin Jiangmin Antivirus: version 13.0.900 only
• Kaspersky Kaspersky Anti-Virus: version 7.0.0.125 only
• McAfee Gateway: version 2010.1c only
• McAfee Scan Engine: version 5.400.0.1158 only
• Norman Norman Antivirus & Antispyware: version 6.06.12 only
• Pc Tools Pc Tools Antivirus: version 7.0.3.5 only
• Symantec Endpoint Protection: version 11.0 only
• Trend Micro Housecall: version 9.120.0.1004 only
• Trend Micro Trend Micro Antivirus: version 9.120.0.1004 only

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