| CVE-2006-6097 | Date: (C)2006-11-24 (M)2023-12-22 |
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.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 4.0 |
| Exploit Score: 4.9 |
| Impact Score: 4.9 |
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| CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Access Vector: NETWORK |
| Access Complexity: HIGH |
| Authentication: NONE |
| Confidentiality: NONE |
| Integrity: PARTIAL |
| Availability: PARTIAL |
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