CVE-2012-3440

Publication date 8 August 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sudo 12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected

Notes

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This is a script specific to Red Hat's sudo package