VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-6097
CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability11.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-11-24
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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.