### [CVE-2006-6097](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6097)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200702-patch.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.