CVE-2006-6097
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.6%
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.
Affected configurations
References
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.html
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html
secunia.com/advisories/23115
secunia.com/advisories/23117
secunia.com/advisories/23142
secunia.com/advisories/23146
secunia.com/advisories/23163
secunia.com/advisories/23173
secunia.com/advisories/23198
secunia.com/advisories/23209
secunia.com/advisories/23314
secunia.com/advisories/23443
secunia.com/advisories/23514
secunia.com/advisories/23911
secunia.com/advisories/24479
secunia.com/advisories/24636
security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-10.xml
securityreason.com/securityalert/1918
securitytracker.com/id?1017423
slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-015.htm
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1223
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:219
www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453286/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-385-1
www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4717
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5102
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1171
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216937
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-821
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10963
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.6%