CVE-2012-1456: Aladdin Esafe

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 99.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TAR file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, 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, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, 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 TAR file with an appended ZIP file. 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

  • Aladdin Esafe: version 7.0.17.0 only
  • Avg Avg Anti-Virus: version 10.0.0.1190 only
  • Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
  • Comodo Comodo Antivirus: version 7424 only
  • Emsisoft Anti-Malware: version 5.1.0.1 only
  • Eset NOD32 Antivirus: version 5795 only
  • F-Prot F-Prot Antivirus: version 4.6.2.117 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
  • 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
  • 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.