{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-08-07T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "sudo: insecure temporary file use in RPM %postun script",
    "id" : "844442",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-367",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2012-08-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1149",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "sudo-0:1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "sudo",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "sudo",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3440\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3440" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-3440",
  "csaw" : false
}