DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6097
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097
Upstream
Published
2006-11-24T18:07:00Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:07:39Z
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

Debian:11 / tar

Package

Name
tar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "high"
}

Debian:12 / tar

Package

Name
tar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "high"
}

Debian:13 / tar

Package

Name
tar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "high"
}

Debian:14 / tar

Package

Name
tar
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tar?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "high"
}