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CVE-2006-6097

Published: 24 November 2006

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.

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
tar
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (1.15.1-2ubuntu2.2)
edgy
Released (1.15.91-2ubuntu0.4)
feisty
Released (1.16-2ubuntu0.1)
upstream Needs triage