ubuntu · CVE-2012-3440

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-3440 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sudo), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, upstream): not-affected 6.

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.