CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3440
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• todd miller sudo 1.7.2
• redhat enterprise linux 5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442 Exploit
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442 Exploit