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CVE-2006-6097

Published: Nov 24, 2006 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6097
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
TarGnu1.15.1 (including)1.15.1 (including)
TarGnu1.16 (including)1.16 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1RedHattar-0:1.13.25-6.AS21.1*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHattar-0:1.13.25-15.RHEL3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHattar-0:1.14-12.RHEL4*
TarUbuntudapper*
TarUbuntudevel*
TarUbuntuedgy*
TarUbuntufeisty*

References

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