- 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.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.6
- Impact score
- 9.2
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-59
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
- Comment
- Additional information: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1149.html
- Impact
- -
- Solution
- -
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