CVE-2006-6097

Public Exploit

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.

4.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 7.07% Top 10%

Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory trustix.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory sgi.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory freebsd.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory openpkg.com Vendor Advisory slackware.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23117	third party advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10963	vdb entry signature
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-821
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1918	third party advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html	third party advisory us government resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235	vdb entry exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/23146	third party advisory
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html	mailing list exploit
http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23209	third party advisory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5102	vdb entry
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23142	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23314	third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1171	vdb entry
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-015.htm
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-10.xml	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23198	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23115	third party advisory
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453286/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/23911	third party advisory
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc	vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-385-1	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/23173	third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html	vendor advisory
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc	vendor advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017423	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/24636	third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1223	vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23443	third party advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216937	exploit
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:219	vendor advisory
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038.html	vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4717	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23514	third party advisory
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23163	third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-6097?: CVE-2006-6097 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-6097?: To fix CVE-2006-6097, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-6097 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-6097 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~7% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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