CVE-2006-6097

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.

Date published : 2006-11-24

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235