CVE-2006-6097

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Tar
Vendor
CVE Published:
24 November 2006

Summary

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.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23117
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/...
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-821
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EPSS Score

7% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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