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CVE-2006-6097

MEDIUM · CVSS 4 EPSS 10.74%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2006-11-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2006-6097
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4
EPSS
10.74%

Original NVD Description

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.