Vulnerability in Todd Miller Sudo
CVE-2012-3440
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (36.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Todd_miller Sudo — versions 1.7.2
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)