CVE-2012-3440
First published: Mon Jul 30 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Todd Miller Sudo | =1.7.2 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =5 |
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