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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.

Severity Score

4.8

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Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1918

Url: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017423

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-821

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-385-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23314

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23115

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-015.htm

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23514

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23117

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23911

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23173

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4717

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23198

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216937

Url: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1223

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:219

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-10.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5102

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1171

Url: http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038.html

Url: http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6097

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-6097

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24636

Url: http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24479

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453286/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23209

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23163

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10963

Url: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html

Url: http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23142

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23146

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/23443

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-6097

Severity Score

4.8

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.8
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:	4.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: November 24, 2006

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