CVE-2012-3440
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-08 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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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