| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1223-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 399845 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| tar (PTS) | bullseye | 1.34+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.34+dfsg-1.2+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.35+dfsg-3.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tar | source | sarge | 1.14-2.3 | DSA-1223-1 | ||
| tar | source | (unstable) | 1.16-2 | high | 399845 |