CVE-2006-6097

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.

CVSS v2.0

4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS

11.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2006-11-24

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29160

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-6096
• CVE-2006-6104
• CVE-2006-6095
• CVE-2006-6109
• CVE-2006-6094
• CVE-2006-6111