CVE-2006-6097

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6097
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2006-6097.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2006-6097
Downstream
Related
Withdrawn
2026-01-27T04:07:33.532923Z
Published
2006-11-24T18:07:00Z
Modified
2026-01-27T04:07:33.532923Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extract_mangle function in mangle.c, a variant of CVE-2002-1216.

References

Affected packages