CVE-1999-1299

Published: 1997-02-03

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

Affected Products

redhat - linux

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slackware - slackware_linux

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References

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