gsd-2006-6097
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:19
Details
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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CVE-2006-6097


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-17T21:46Z",
      "publishedDate": "2006-11-24T18:07Z"
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}


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