Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3440

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-08 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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.

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