{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "high"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "tar"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.16-2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "high"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "tar"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.16-2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "high"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "tar"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.16-2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "high"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "tar"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.16-2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6097",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:51:10.069569377Z",
  "published": "2006-11-24T18:07:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6097"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2006-6097"
  ]
}