CVE-2012-3440
A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.
- Todd Miller Sudo
- = 1.7.2
- Redhat Enterprise Linux
- = 5
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.6 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 0.4% (36th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-08
CVE-2012-3440 at NVD
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