CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. Its EPSS score suggests a 87.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2012-1424
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
87.29%
Original NVD Description
The TAR file parser in Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \19\04\00\10 character sequence at a certain location. 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.