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DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
8.699999809265137
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14tar0, 0, 0
Debian:11tar0, 0, 0
Debian:12tar0, 0, 0
Debian:13tar0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 24, 2006 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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