CVE-2012-1460: Aladdin Esafe

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 94.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Gzip file parser in Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with stray bytes at the end. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip parser implementations.

Affected products

• Aladdin Esafe: version 7.0.17.0 only
• Anti-Virus VBA32: version 3.12.14.2 only
• Antiy Avl SDK: version 2.0.3.7 only
• Authentium Command Antivirus: version 5.2.11.5 only
• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• F-Prot F-Prot Antivirus: version 4.6.2.117 only
• Jiangmin Jiangmin Antivirus: version 13.0.900 only
• k7computing Antivirus: version 9.77.3565 only

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