CVE-2006-6097
gnu tar: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:tar
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