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      "value": "Una secuencia de comandos seguro de Red Hat para sudo v1.7.2 sobre Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v5 permite a usuarios locales sobreescribir ficheros arbitrarios mediante un ataque de enlace simb\u00f3lico en el directorio temporal /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak"
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