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tar — security advisory
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.
- Products
- tar
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.16-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-6097
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097
tar
Fixed versions: 1.16-2
tar
Fixed versions: 1.16-2
tar
Fixed versions: 1.16-2
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:21.042493969Z",
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"published_at": "2006-11-24T18:07:00+00:00"
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