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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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DSA |
DSA-1223-1 | New tar packages fix arbitrary file overwrite |
EUVD |
EUVD-2006-6080 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-385-1 | tar vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:12:31.768Z
Reserved: 2006-11-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-6097
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-11-24T18:07:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2006-6097
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN