Bug 806101 (CVE-2012-1459)

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-1459 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2012-1459
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1459
Assigned: 20120229
Reference: BUGTRAQ:20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products
Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
Reference: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html

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.