NVD

Id
45035  
Name
CVE-2012-3440  
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
5.6  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
5.6  
CVSS Impact Subscore
9.2  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
1.9  
CVSS Vector
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-01-19  
Published
2012-08-08  
Modified Date
2016-11-28  
Seq
2012-3440  

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