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CVE-2012-1442

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 98.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-03-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The 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.

Affected products

• Aladdin Esafe: 7.0.17.0
• Antiy Avl Sdk: 2.0.3.7
• Cat Quick Heal: 11.00
• F-Secure Anti-Virus: 9.0.16160.0
• Fortinet Antivirus: 4.2.254.0
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus: 7.0.0.125
• McAfee Gateway: 2010.1c
• McAfee Scan Engine: 5.400.0.1158
• Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus: 10.0.2.7
• Rising-Global Rising Antivirus: 22.83.00.03
• Sophos Anti-Virus: 4.61.0

References

• http://osvdb.org/80426
• http://osvdb.org/80427
• http://osvdb.org/80428
• http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52598
• http://osvdb.org/80426
• http://osvdb.org/80427
• http://osvdb.org/80428
• http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52598

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