{"cve":"CVE-2006-6097","nvd":{"published":"2006-11-24T18:07:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:32:27.557","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc","http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214","http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.html","http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html","http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html"],"products":["gnu:tar"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:43:14.363260067+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2006-6097","score":0.11691,"percentile":0.96063,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}