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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- high
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- TODD_MILLER
- Published
- 8/8/2012
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
todd_miller : sudoredhat : enterprise_linux
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