CVE-2006-6097 - Beheaded Taxis
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.
Reference
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