Vulnerability in Gnu Tar

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 tar file that contains a GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extract_archiv…

EPSS: 0.107 (95.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Tar — versions 1.15.1, 1.16
  • N/a — versions n/a

References