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.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tar | Gnu | 1.15.1 (including) | 1.15.1 (including) |
| Tar | Gnu | 1.16 (including) | 1.16 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | RedHat | tar-0:1.13.25-6.AS21.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | RedHat | tar-0:1.13.25-15.RHEL3 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | RedHat | tar-0:1.14-12.RHEL4 | * |
| Tar | Ubuntu | dapper | * |
| Tar | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Tar | Ubuntu | edgy | * |
| Tar | Ubuntu | feisty | * |