CVE-2006-6097

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

10.442

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in GNU Tar 1.15.1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2006-6097,CVE-2007-4131,CVE-2010-0624,CVE-2016-6321 are affected in GNU Tar 1.16	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234