## 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.

## Severity

Overall Severity: N/A

### CVSS Metrics

Type | Score | Severity | Vector
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## Affected Products

### redhat - linux

Affected Versions:

- 4.0

### slackware - slackware_linux

Affected Versions:

- 3.1

## References

- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420509&w=2

Neural Processor Active