CVE-2012-3440 | BDVDB-2026-51411 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12012-08-08Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.