Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-1149-01 - The sudo utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the sudo package's post-uninstall script. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to overwrite an arbitrary file via a symbolic link attack, or modify the contents of the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" file during the upgrade or removal of the sudo package. This update also fixes the following bugs:
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