Bug 1618237 (CVE-2006-6097) - CVE-2006-6097 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-6097 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-6097
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:44 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:44:59 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:44:52 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:51:52 UTC 
MITRE 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.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:31:10 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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