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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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

Updated: 2016-11-25T19:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2012-3440

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:34:22.927


Link: CVE-2012-3440

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