Debian DSA-1223-1 : tar - input validation error

Teemu Salmela discovered a vulnerability in GNU tar that could allow a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files by inducing the victim to attempt to extract a specially crafted tar file containing a GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

[slackware-security] tar

New tar packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6097 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1223-1] New tar packages fix arbitrary file overwrite

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1223-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans December 01, 2006 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : tar Vulnerability...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1223-1] New tar packages fix arbitrary file overwrite

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1223-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans December 01, 2006 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : tar Vulnerability...

DSA-1223-1 tar

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GNU Tar GNUTYPE_NAMES远程目录遍历漏洞

GNU tar可创建和解压tar文档，并进行各种存档文件管理。 GNU tar在处理特定的记录时未能正确处理可能的符号链接，远程攻击者可能利用此漏洞在用户机器的任意位置创建文件。 tar的extract.c文件中的extractarchive函数和mangle.c文件中的extractmangle函数会处理包含有符号链接的GNUTYPENAMES记录类型。如果用户受骗打开了特制的tar文件的话，就会导致覆盖任意文件。 GNU tar 1.16 GNU tar 1.15.1 目前厂商还没有提供补丁或者升级程序，我们建议使用此软件的用户随时关注厂商的主页以获取最新版本：...

[Full-disclosure] GNU tar directory traversal

GNU tar directory traversal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is it? When i download a tar file warez.tar.gz in this example from the web and run the following commands: $ mkdir /warez $ tar xzf warez.tar.gz -C /warez , then i would expect that tar...

USN-385-1: tar vulnerability

Teemu Salmela discovered that tar still handled the deprecated GNUTYPENAMES record type. This record type could be used to create symlinks that would be followed while unpacking a tar archive. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted tar file, arbitrary fil...

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

DEBIAN-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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly...

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2006-6097

Summary: CVE-2006-6097 affects GNU tar (notably v1.15.1 and v1.16) due to improper handling of GNUTYPE_NAMES symlink records during extraction, enabling a user-assisted attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. Multiple advisories report the issue as a path-traversal vulnerability in tar extraction,...

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

CVE-2006-6097: Undefined Security Weakness

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 GNUTYPENAMES record with a symbolic link, which is not properly handled by the extractarchive function in extract.c and extractmangle function in...

gnutar.txt

GNU tar directory traversal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is it? When i download a tar file warez.tar.gz in this example from the web and run the following commands: $ mkdir /warez $ tar xzf warez.tar.gz -C /warez , then i would expect that tar...

GNU Tar 1.1x - GNUTYPE_NAMES Directory Traversal

GNU Tar 1.1x - GNUTYPENAMES Directory Traversal / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235/info GNU Tar is prone to a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to place files and overwrite files in arbitrary locations on a vulnerable computer. These issues present themselves when the...

GNU Tar 1.1x - 'GNUTYPE_NAMES' Directory Traversal

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21235/info GNU Tar is prone to a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to place files and overwrite files in arbitrary locations on a vulnerable computer. These issues present themselves when the application processes malicious archives. A successful...