CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6097

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.

Affected configurations

• gnu tar 1.15.1 • gnu tar 1.16

References