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	Software Inspectors   Scan Online   Personal (PSI)   Network (NSI 2.0) Solutions For   Security Professionals   Security Vendors Free Solutions For   Open Communities   Journalists & Media Secunia Advisories   Search   Historic Advisories   Listed By Product   Listed By Vendor   Statistics / Graphs   Secunia Research   Report Vulnerability   About Advisories Virus Information   Chronological List   Last 10 Virus Alerts   About Virus Information Secunia Customers   Customer Area CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6097 NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE. Original Page at CVE MITRE: 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. CVE Status: Candidate References: UBUNTU   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-385-1 TRUSTIX   http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/ ST   1017423 SREASON   http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1918 SLACKWARE   http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.469379 SGI SAID   Secunia Advisory: SA24636   Secunia Advisory: SA24479   Secunia Advisory: SA23911   Secunia Advisory: SA23514   Secunia Advisory: SA23443   Secunia Advisory: SA23209   Secunia Advisory: SA23146   Secunia Advisory: SA23198   Secunia Advisory: SA23314   Secunia Advisory: SA23115   Secunia Advisory: SA23142   Secunia Advisory: SA23117   Secunia Advisory: SA23173   Secunia Advisory: SA23163 REDHAT   http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0749.html OPENPKG   http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.038.html MISC MANDRIVA   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:219 GENTOO   http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-10.xml FULLDISC   http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html FREEBSD   http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:26.gtar.asc DEBIAN   http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1223 CONFIRM   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214   http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html   http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-015.htm   http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/817/2240267_f.SAL_Public.html CERT   http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html BUGTRAQ   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464268/100/0/threaded   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453286/100/0/threaded BID   21235 APPLE   http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html Return to the previous page. Secunia PSI Scan | Patch | Track Free Download Secunia Poll Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network? Yes, I do it all the time Yes, but I do it rarely No See Results    Most Popular Advisories 1. OpenOffice "rtl_allocateMe mory()" Truncation Vulnerability 2. JustSystems Ichitaro Products Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability 3. Red Hat update for openoffice.org 4. Red Hat Directory Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilities 5. Red Hat update for tomcat 6. Mono Sys.Web HTTP Header Injection Vulnerability 7. Red Hat Directory Server Multiple Vulnerabilities 8. HP-UX update for Apache 9. Quick Poll "id" SQL Injection Vulnerability 10. Citadel "migrate_aliase s.sh" Insecure Temporary Files
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