CVE-2012-3440

CVE Details

Release Date:	2012-08-08
Impact:	None	What is this?

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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.6
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (sudo)	ELSA-2012-1149	2012-08-07
Oracle VM version 3.2 (sudo)	OVMSA-2016-0079	2016-06-20