Cent OS: CVE-2012-3440: CESA-2012:1149 (sudo)
6
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
08/08/2012
07/25/2018
12/01/2016
07/04/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-sudo
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