CVE-2006-6097
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.0 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2006-11-24
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
Affected products
References
- 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
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23115
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23117
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23142
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23146
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23163
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23173
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23209
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23314
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23443
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23514
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23911
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24636
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-10.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1918
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017423
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-015.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1223
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:219
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453286/100/0/threaded
