This CVE name corresponds to:
| Entered | Topic |
|---|---|
| 2007-02-27 | gtar -- name mangling symlink vulnerability |
| 2006-11-30 | gtar -- GNUTYPE_NAMES directory traversal vulnerability |
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| Type | Candidate |
| Name | CVE-2006-6097 |
| Phase | Assigned(20061124) |
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.
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