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CVE-2006-6097

CVE-2006-6097

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 11%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDNov 24
1st PoCNov 21
exploitation probability
11%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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 products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/29160
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References
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.aschttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.htmlhttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216937http://secunia.com/advisories/23115http://secunia.com/advisories/23117http://secunia.com/advisories/23142http://secunia.com/advisories/23146http://secunia.com/advisories/23163