CVE-2006-6097

MediumCVSS 4.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.0/10AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 24, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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