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.
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Information
Published : 1997-02-03 05:00
Updated : 2024-11-20 23:30
NVD link : CVE-1999-1299
Mitre link : CVE-1999-1299
CVE.ORG link : CVE-1999-1299
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Products Affected
redhat
- linux
slackware
- slackware_linux
CWE