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HistoryAug 08, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2012-3440

2012-08-0800:00:00
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5.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

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.

Notes

Author Note
tyhicks This is a script specific to Red Hat’s sudo package

5.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%