DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097

    Published: 24 Nov 2006Last Modified: 7 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2006-6097

    Summary:

    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 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6097

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tar

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/tar?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.16-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High