Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 8, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

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.

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Affected products

Todd Miller/Sudo
cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/sudollm-create
Range: =1.7.2
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7llm-fuzzy
Range: 5

Patches

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References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploit
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868nvd

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