{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2006-11-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "security flaw",
    "id" : "1618237",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618237"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1",
    "release_date" : "2006-12-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0749",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1",
    "package" : "tar-0:1.13.25-6.AS21.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2006-12-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0749",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "tar-0:1.13.25-15.RHEL3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2006-12-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0749",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "tar-0:1.14-12.RHEL4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6097\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6097" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-6097",
  "csaw" : false
}