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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 8, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026

CVE-2012-3440

CVE-2012-3440

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 products

2

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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