Explain CVE-2012-1459
The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, G Data AntiVirus 21, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, VBA32 3.12.14.2, and VirusBuster 13.6.151.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field corresponding to that entire entry, plus part of the header of the next entry.  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: n/a
References: [{'name': 'openSUSE-SU-2012:0833', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00002.html'}, {'name': '80406', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80406'}, {'name': '80393', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80393'}, {'name': '20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_BUGTRAQ'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005'}, {'name': '80403', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80403'}, {'name': '80389', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80389'}, {'name': '80391', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80391'}, {'name': '80409', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80409'}, {'name': '80396', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80396'}, {'name': 'multiple-av-tar-header-evasion(74302)', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_XF'], 'url': 'https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74302'}, {'name': '80392', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80392'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_MISC'], 'url': 'http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html'}, {'name': '80390', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80390'}, {'name': 'MDVSA-2012:094', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_MANDRIVA'], 'url': 'http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:094'}, {'name': '80407', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80407'}, {'name': '80395', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_OSVDB'], 'url': 'http://osvdb.org/80395'}, {'name': '52623', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_BID'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52623'}]
CVE State: PUBLISHED