CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1299
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1997-02-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file.
Affected configurations
• redhat linux 4.0
• slackware slackware linux 3.1