CVE-2012-1438

Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 - Malware Detection Bypass via Ustar Character Sequence

Title source: llm

Description

The Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a ustar 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 Office parser implementations.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0156

EPSS Percentile 81.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (2)

comodo/comodo_antivirus 7425

sophos/sophos_anti-virus 4.61.0

Published Mar 21, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026