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CVE-2006-6097

medium · 4

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.

4
CVSS
11.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2006-11-24
Published

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
gnutar1.15.1
gnutar1.16

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