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.

Affected products

Gnu Tar, Red Hat

Gnu Tar

= 1.15.1, 1.16

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

4.0 MEDIUM

EPSS

10.7% (95th percentile)

NVD status

Modified

Published

2006-11-24