CVE-2012-1425 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1425?

CVE-2012-1425 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection, published on 21 Mar 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TAR file parser in Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, 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, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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 POSIX TAR file with an initial \50\4B\03\04 character sequence. 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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1425?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Antiy Avl Sdk, Avira Antivir, Cat Quick Heal, Emsisoft Anti-Malware, Eset Nod32 Antivirus, Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1425?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1425 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-1425 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1425 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection

• CVE-2012-1424 Security feature bypass in n/a Medium 4.3
• CVE-2012-1453 Security feature bypass in n/a Medium 4.3

All Symantec Endpoint Protection vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wrhj-3rrw-93w5.