OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG-SA-2006.038 - The archive format utility GNU tar, versions up to and including 1.16, allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR format file that contains a "GNUTYPE_NAMES" record with a symbolic link.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006-219-1 - 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.
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