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CVE-2006-6097

Publication date 24 November 2006

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tar 7.04 feisty
Fixed 1.16-2ubuntu0.1
6.10 edgy
Fixed 1.15.91-2ubuntu0.4
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 1.15.1-2ubuntu2.2

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-385-1
    • tar vulnerability
    • 27 November 2006

Other references