CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-3440.md

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.

POC

Reference

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

Github

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