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CVE-2006-6097 Affecting tar package, versions <1.16-2

high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.02% (84th percentile)
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NVD
4.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-TAR-312310
  • published 24 Nov 2006
  • disclosed 24 Nov 2006
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Introduced: 24 Nov 2006

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How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 tar to version 1.16-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tar package and not the tar package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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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