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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-08-08T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:05:12.637Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-3440

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-08-08T10:26:19.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:40:52.910

Link: CVE-2012-3440

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-3440 - Bugzilla