CVE-2006-6097
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2006-11-24 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
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.
See more information about CVE-2006-6097 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.0 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (tar) | ELSA-2006-0749 | 2006-12-20 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (tar) | ELSA-2006-0749 | 2006-12-20 |
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