CVE-2012-1442

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1442
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-03-21 10:11:00 UTC
Updated2012-07-28 03:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Aladdin Esafe 7.0.17.0 All All All
Application Aladdin Esafe 7.0.17.0 All All All
Application Antiy Avl Sdk 2.0.3.7 All All All
Application Antiy Avl Sdk 2.0.3.7 All All All
Application Cat Quick Heal 11.00 All All All
Application Cat Quick Heal 11.00 All All All
Application F-secure F-secure Anti-virus 9.0.16160.0 All All All
Application F-secure F-secure Anti-virus 9.0.16160.0 All All All
Application Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0 All All All
Application Fortinet Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0 All All All
Application Kaspersky Kaspersky Anti-virus 7.0.0.125 All All All
Application Kaspersky Kaspersky Anti-virus 7.0.0.125 All All All
Application Mcafee Gateway 2010.1c All All All
Application Mcafee Gateway 2010.1c All All All
Application Mcafee Scan Engine 5.400.0.1158 All All All
Application Mcafee Scan Engine 5.400.0.1158 All All All
Application Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 All All All
Application Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 All All All
Application Rising-global Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 All All All
Application Rising-global Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 All All All
Application Sophos Sophos Anti-virus 4.61.0 All All All
Application Sophos Sophos Anti-virus 4.61.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple AntiVirus Products CVE-2012-1442 ELF File Scan Evasion Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012 MISC www.ieee-security.org
80426 OSVDB osvdb.org
80428 OSVDB osvdb.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
80427 OSVDB osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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