CVE-2006-6097
GNU tar 1.16 and 1.15.1, and possibly other versions, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a
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.
MEDIUM · CVSS 4
EPSS 0.10442
Schedule remediation
- EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
- EPSS percentile: top 7% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
- Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0
YARA rules0