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CVE-2006-6097

Date: November 24, 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.

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Related Resources (5)

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1918
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6097
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-6097

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): HIGH
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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