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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2006-0300 json

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly ex…

published 2006-02-24 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0307

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in tar 1.14 through 1.15.90 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute code via unspecified vectors involving PAX extended headers.

Patch / fix

  • tar Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.15.1-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0300

  • tar RHEL 4 1.14-9.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0232

  • tar openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.34-2.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11422-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-0300 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 tar 1.14-9.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 tar 1.14-9.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 tar 1.14-9.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 tar 1.14-9.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0232

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.