### [CVE-2012-3440](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3440)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

#### Github
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