cve-2012-3440
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-08 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442Exploit
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