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CVE-2006-6097

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2006-11-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Gnu Tar

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References