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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2006-11-24T18:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-17T20:57:01
Reserved: 2006-11-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-6097
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-11-24T18:07:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-17T21:46:36.780
Link: CVE-2006-6097
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