CVE-2012-1427: Cat Quick Heal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 87.6% 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, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \57\69\6E\5A\69\70 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.

Affected products

• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• Norman Norman Antivirus & Antispyware: version 6.06.12 only
• Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus: version 4.61.0 only

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