FKIE_CVE-2006-6097
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-11-24 18:07 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:32
Severity
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
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