CVE-2012-1442: Aladdin Esafe

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 98.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

Affected products

• Aladdin Esafe: version 7.0.17.0 only
• Antiy Avl SDK: version 2.0.3.7 only
• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus: version 9.0.16160.0 only
• Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus: version 4.2.254.0 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
• Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus: version 10.0.2.7 only
• Rising-Global Rising Antivirus: version 22.83.00.03 only
• Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus: version 4.61.0 only

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