Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 Malware Detection access control

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2012-1438. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 (Anti-Malware Software). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 03/21/2012 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-1438 since 02/29/2012. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/16/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-60507, VDB-60506, VDB-60505 and VDB-60504. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• Sophos

Name

• Anti-Virus

Version

• 4.61.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.sophos.com/

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